ridicule

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior. countable,uncountable
    — Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.
  2. A small woman's handbag; a reticule. historical,regional
    — […] while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady’s replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, […]
  3. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock. countable,uncountable
    — [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
  4. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. countable,uncountable
    — to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice
动词 v.
  1. To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of. transitive
    — His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
形容词 adj.
  1. ridiculous obsolete
    — late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives This action […] became so ridicule.

词形变化

ridicules present,singular,third-person ridiculing participle,present ridiculed participle,past ridiculed past ridicules plural more ridicule comparative most ridicule superlative ridicules plural

词汇关系

近义词
ridicule derision scoff mockery katagelasticism
衍生词
ridicule pole ridiculize
相关词
deride derision ridiculable ridiculous ridiculosity humiliation disrespect contempt

词源

词源 1
The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus.
The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.
词源 2
Apparently from French ridicule (“reticule”), probably a punning alteration of réticule after ridicule (“ridicule”).
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