Ridicule

Ridicule - Other Definitions

• (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
  
  
• (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
  
  
• (n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
  
  
• (v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
  
  
• (a.) Ridiculous.