deride
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dērīdēre, the present active infinitive of dērīdeō (“to laugh at, make fun of, mock, deride”), from dē- (prefix denoting putting down or subjecting to indignity) + rīdeō (“to laugh; to laugh at, mock, ridicule”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”) (referring to turning the mouth to smile) or *wreyd- (“to carve; to scratch”)).
cognates
* Old French dérider (rare), derire
Inflected forms:
form: derides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deriding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: deride
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: deride
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: deride
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: deridest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: deridedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: derides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: derideth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: deride
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: deride
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: deride
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: deriding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: derided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cicero beeing Augur, derideth the Auguries, and blames men for letting their actions relie vpon the voyce of a Crovve or a Davve.
And the people ſtood beholding ⁊ the rulers alſo with them derided him [Jesus], ſaying, hee ſaued others, let him ſaue himſelfe, if he be Chriſt, yͤ choſen of God.
I knovv there be many baſe, impudent, and braſen-faced roagues, […] let them be proued, perjured, ſtigmatized, convict roagues, theeues, traitors, looſe their ears, be vvhipped, branded, carted, pointed at, hiſſed, reviled, and derided, vvith Ballio the baud in Plautus, they reioice at it, […]
And thou Gallant, that readeſt and derideſt this madneſſe of Faſhion, if thine eyes vvere not dazeled vvith lightneſſe (light I cannot call it) of ſelfe-reflected Vanitie, mighteſt ſee as Monſter-like faſhions at home, and a more faſhionly Monſter of thy ſelfe; […]
[H]ee [Noah] of thir vvicked vvayes / Shall them admoniſh, […] and ſhall returne / Of them derided, but of God obſervd / The one juſt Man alive; by his command / Shall build a vvondrous Ark, as thou beheldſt, / To ſave himſelf and houſhold from amidſt / A VVorld devote to univerſal rack.
Thou derideſt ſervants for obeying diligently their higheſt maſter? and for doing diligently the greateſt, beſt and needfulleſt vvork in all the vvorld? And is this a good example for thy ovvn ſervants?
They [Christian's relations] alſo thought to drive avvay his diſtemper by harſh and ſurly carriages to him: Sometimes they vvould deride, ſometimes they vvould chide, and ſometimes they vvould quite neglect him: […]
[H]e ſcorns the vain apologies of his prieſts, and juſtly derides the object, and the folly, of his ſuperſtitious attachment.
I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and Thou [God] deridest me. In these desires I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious, the less Thou sufferedst aught to grow sweet to me, which was not Thou.
And while the Tory caricatures were deriding [William Ewart] Gladstone because he introduced very new-fangled legislation, they were also deriding him because he wore very antiquated collars.
Italy's eventual win was worthy of an audience filling Wembley twice over, the joy of Mancini and his players a brutal contrast to the despair of much-derided Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who had actually rescued them with an equaliser in normal time after Federico Chiesa's superb opener for Italy.
gloss: To laugh in a harshly mocking manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Memorandum that about the year 1650 coffee and chocolate began to be frequently drunk in Oxon: and about 1655 a club was erected at Tilliard's where many pretended witts would meet and deride at others.
Synonyms: badger
bam
barrack
brock
bullyrag
chiack
deride
fleer
fligger
flite
geck
heckle
hound
jeer
nip
outlaugh
poke borack
ridicule
scoff
sneer
taunt
twit
Related words: derision
derisive
ridicule
ridiculosity
ridiculous
risible
joke
Derived words: deridable
derided
derider
deriding
deridingly
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