Noun: ridicule 'ri-du,kyool
- Language or behaviour intended to mock or humiliate
"The student faced ridicule for his unconventional ideas"
- The act of deriding or treating with contempt
"The student's ridicule of the teacher's accent was met with disciplinary action";
- derision
- Subject to laughter or ridicule
"The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house";
- roast [informal], guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib [informal], make fun of, poke fun
Derived forms: ridiculing, ridicules, ridiculed
Type of: bemock [archaic], discourtesy, disrespect, mock, offence [Brit, Cdn], offense [US], offensive activity
Encyclopedia: Ridicule