noun
Meaning 1
Act of treating with disdain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
derision
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪˈɹɪʒən/
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rhymes with -ɪʒən
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CMU ARPABET: D ER0 IH1 ZH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the act of deriding or treating with contempt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ridicule
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity
Narrower terms: mock
noun
Meaning 4
contemptuous laughter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disrespect, discourtesy
Narrower terms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing, put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown, stultification, befooling
History
Etymology
From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ծաղր (caġr) — act of treating with contempt
- Bulgarian: присмиване (prismivane) — act of treating with contempt
- Bulgarian: осмиване (osmivane) — act of treating with contempt
- Catalan: derisió — act of treating with contempt
- Czech: posměch — act of treating with contempt
- Czech: výsměch — act of treating with contempt
- Czech: zesměšnění — act of treating with contempt
- Dutch: spot — act of treating with contempt
- Finnish: iva — act of treating with contempt
- Finnish: pilkka — act of treating with contempt
- French: dérision — act of treating with contempt
- Galician: menosprezo — act of treating with contempt
- Galician: desdén — act of treating with contempt
- German: Hohn — act of treating with contempt
- German: Spott — act of treating with contempt
- German: Verhöhnung — act of treating with contempt
- German: Verspottung — act of treating with contempt
- German: Gespött — act of treating with contempt
- Ancient Greek: κατάγελως (katágelōs) — act of treating with contempt
- Hindi: उपहास (uphās) — act of treating with contempt
- Hindi: खिल्ली (khillī) — act of treating with contempt
- Hungarian: kinevetés — act of treating with contempt
- Hungarian: kigúnyolás — act of treating with contempt
- Hungarian: kicsúfolás — act of treating with contempt
- Hungarian: kikacagás — act of treating with contempt
- Hungarian: megmosolygás — act of treating with contempt
- Italian: derisione — act of treating with contempt
- Kazakh: келемеж (kelemej) — act of treating with contempt
- Kazakh: мазақ (mazaq) — act of treating with contempt
- Kazakh: келеке (keleke) — act of treating with contempt
- Kazakh: күлкі (külkı) — act of treating with contempt
- Latin: dērīsiō — act of treating with contempt
- Macedonian: мунѕа (mundza) — act of treating with contempt
- Malayalam: പരിഹാസം (parihāsaṁ) — act of treating with contempt
- Plautdietsch: Spott — act of treating with contempt
- Polish: wyszydzenie — act of treating with contempt
- Polish: szyderstwo — act of treating with contempt
- Portuguese: menosprezo — act of treating with contempt
- Russian: высмеивание (vysmeivanije) — act of treating with contempt
- Russian: насме́шка (nasméška) — act of treating with contempt
- Russian: осмеяние (osmejanije) — act of treating with contempt
- Sanskrit: निद् (nid) — act of treating with contempt
- Spanish: irrisión — act of treating with contempt
- Spanish: derrisión — act of treating with contempt
- Swedish: hån — act of treating with contempt
- Swedish: förlöjligande — act of treating with contempt
- Telugu: ఎగతాళి (egatāḷi) — act of treating with contempt
- Turkish: alay — act of treating with contempt
- Ukrainian: висміювання (vysmijuvannja) — act of treating with contempt
- Ukrainian: насміхання (nasmixannja) — act of treating with contempt
- Ukrainian: посміх (posmix) — act of treating with contempt
- Ukrainian: глузування (hluzuvannja) — act of treating with contempt