1. Subject to laughter or ridicule
   "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"
   - roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun

1. Language or behaviour intended to mock or humiliate 
2. The act of deriding or treating with contempt
   - derision

Derived forms: ridiculed, ridicules, ridiculing

See also: ridiculer, ridiculous

Type of: bemock, discourtesy, disrespect, mock, offence [Brit, Cdn], offense [US], offensive activity

Encyclopedia: Ridicule

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