Disrespected vs Ridiculed - What's the difference?
disrespected | ridiculed |
(disrespect)
A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour.
(ridicule)
to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
* Alexander Pope
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
* Buckle
* Foxe
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
* Addison
(obsolete) ridiculous
As verbs the difference between disrespected and ridiculed
is that disrespected is past tense of disrespect while ridiculed is past tense of ridicule.disrespected
English
Verb
(head)disrespect
English
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* *Antonyms
* respectSynonyms
* dis, insult, misbid, misrespectAntonyms
* respectridiculed
English
Verb
(head)ridicule
English
Verb
(ridicul)- His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
Synonyms
* (l)Noun
- Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, / Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
- [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
- To the people but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule .
- to see the ridicule of this practice
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* humiliationAdjective
(en adjective)- This action became so ridicule . — Aubrey.