ridiculeとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).

動詞

ridicule (三人称単数 現在形 ridicules, 現在分詞 ridiculing, 過去形および過去分詞形 ridiculed)

1. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of

   His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.

同意語

• outlaugh

名詞

ridicule (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ridicules)

1. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
   • 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue II

     Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.

2. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
   • 1857, Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England

     [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

   • 1563 March 30​, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], OCLC 64451939:

     To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.

3. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
   • 1710 April 1 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “TUESDAY, March 21, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 18; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice

   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 65:

     More keenly alive perhaps than any of her sisters to the little ridicules that belonged to Mrs. Palmer's character, she yet saw how small was their importance, and that Mrs. Palmer was not only a better but a happier person than most of those with whom she was acquainted.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:ridicule

関連する語

• deride
• derision
• ridiculable
• ridiculous
• ridiculosity

参考

• humiliation

形容詞

ridicule (comparative more ridicule, superlative most ridicule)

1. (obsolete) ridiculous
   • late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives

     This action […] became so ridicule.

語源 2

From French ridicule, probably jocular alteration of réticule.

名詞

ridicule (複数形 ridicules)

1. (now historical) A small woman's handbag; a reticule. [from 18th c.]
   • c. 1825, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 455:

     I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.

   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 558204586:

     ‘Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mailcoaches […] ,’ said Mr. Claypole.

Further reading

• “ridicule” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “ridicule” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.