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
If you ridicule someone or ridicule their ideas or beliefs, you make fun of them in an unkind way. I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back = mock
If someone or something is an object of ridicule or is held up to ridicule, someone makes fun of them in an unkind way. As a heavy child, she became the object of ridicule from classmates. unkind laughter or remarks that are intended to make someone or something seem stupid (ridiculum , from ridere ). to laugh at a person, idea etc and say that they are stupid
language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"