adj
Meaning 1
Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: satiric
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
satirical
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/səˈtɪɹɪkəl/
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rhymes with -ɪɹɪkəl
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 T IH1 R AH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: S AH0 T IH1 R IH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
exposing human folly to ridicule
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: satiric
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English satire Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English satirical From satire + -ical.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: satirik — of or pertaining to satire
- Asturian: satíricu — of or pertaining to satire
- Belarusian: сатыры́чны (satyrýčny) — of or pertaining to satire
- Bulgarian: сатири́чен (satiríčen) — of or pertaining to satire
- Catalan: satíric — of or pertaining to satire
- Chinese Mandarin: 諷刺的 /讽刺的 (fěngcì de) — of or pertaining to satire
- Czech: satirický — of or pertaining to satire
- Danish: satirisk — of or pertaining to satire
- Dutch: satirisch — of or pertaining to satire
- Esperanto: satira — of or pertaining to satire
- French: satirique — of or pertaining to satire
- Galician: satírico — of or pertaining to satire
- German: satirisch — of or pertaining to satire
- Greek: σατιρικός (satirikós) — of or pertaining to satire
- Haitian Creole: satirik — of or pertaining to satire
- Ido: satirema — of or pertaining to satire
- Irish: aorach — of or pertaining to satire
- Italian: satirico — of or pertaining to satire
- Japanese: 風刺的な (fūshiteki na) — of or pertaining to satire
- Kazakh: сатиралық (satiralyq) — of or pertaining to satire
- Korean: 풍자적 (pungjajeok) — of or pertaining to satire
- Latin: satiricus — of or pertaining to satire
- Latvian: satīrisks — of or pertaining to satire
- Macedonian: сатиричен (satiričen) — of or pertaining to satire
- Norwegian Bokmål: satirisk — of or pertaining to satire
- Polish: satyryczny — of or pertaining to satire
- Portuguese: satírico — of or pertaining to satire
- Romanian: satiric — of or pertaining to satire
- Russian: сатири́ческий (satiríčeskij) — of or pertaining to satire
- Scottish Gaelic: sgaiteach — of or pertaining to satire
- Slovak: satirický — of or pertaining to satire
- Slovene: satiričen — of or pertaining to satire
- Spanish: satírico — of or pertaining to satire
- Tagalog: mapang-uroy — of or pertaining to satire
- Ukrainian: сатири́чний (satyrýčnyj) — of or pertaining to satire
- Welsh: dychanol — of or pertaining to satire
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