ridiculeとは

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
   • Alexander Pope

     Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, / Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.

2. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
   • Buckle

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

   • Foxe

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

3. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
   • Addison

     to see the ridicule of this practice

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

   This action […] became so ridicule. — Aubrey.

Further reading

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

Latin

語源

From rīdiculus (“laughable; ridiculous”), from rīdeō (“to laugh; mock”).

副詞

rīdiculē (comparative rīdiculius, superlative rīdiculissimē)

1. laughably, amusingly
2. absurdly, ridiculously

同意語

• perrīdiculē

参照

• ridicule in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ridicule in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ridicule in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette