Adjective: ridicule
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ridicule |
| Superlative | most ridicule |
Sample Sentences
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late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives
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This action […] became so ridicule.
Adjectives inflected like ridicule
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
2. The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus.
3. The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule. See: French Adjectives '
ridicule', Latin Adjectives '
rīdiculus'.