Outlaugh vs. Ridicule — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Outlaugh and Ridicule
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Definitions
Outlaugh
(transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. - Franklin
Ridicule
The act of using words, gestures, images, or other products of expression to evoke laughter or contemptuous feelings regarding a person or thing
A remark that invited the ridicule of his classmates.
Outlaugh
(transitive) To laugh louder than, surpass in laughing.
Ridicule
The words or other products of expression used in this way
Was subjected to a torrent of ridicule.
Outlaugh
To surpass or outdo in laughing.
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Ridicule
To expose to ridicule; make fun of.
Outlaugh
To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.
His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity.
Ridicule
(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.
Ridicule
Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
Ridicule
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
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Ridicule
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Ridicule
A small woman's handbag; a reticule.
Ridicule
(obsolete) ridiculous
Ridicule
An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.
Ridicule
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.
We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, - the laughable, - and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings.
Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Ridicule
Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
To see the ridicule of this practice.
Ridicule
To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage.
Ridicule
Ridiculous.
This action . . . became so ridicule.
Ridicule
Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
Ridicule
The act of deriding or treating with contempt
Ridicule
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
