🇬🇧 Ridicule meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To ridicule someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them in a way that is unkind and hurtful, instead of friendly and playful. When you ridicule a person, you are trying to make them feel silly or stupid on purpose, and that can really hurt their feelings.

The mirror tried to ridicule my bedhead, but I told it, “This is not a disaster, this is modern art.”

When I wore two different shoes to school, I thought everyone would ridicule me, but they just asked if it was a new fashion trend.

My little cousin tried to ridicule my dancing, but then she tripped over absolutely nothing and invented a brand-new dance move.

At the costume party, no one dared to ridicule the kid dressed as a giant broccoli, because he brought delicious cheese dip.

The pigeons gathered to silently ridicule my attempt at running, bobbing their heads like tiny, disappointed coaches.

At the playground, kids point and ridicule his bright purple coat. One boy laughs and tries to ridicule him again. Girls whisper to ridicule him, and someone takes a photo to ridicule him. He lowers his head, tears in his eyes. The teacher arrives and says, "Don't ridicule him." They stop and apologize, and he smiles.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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