Defn: One who ridicules.
RIDICULIZE
Ri*dic"u*lize, v. t.
Defn: To make ridiculous; to ridicule. [Obs.] Chapman.
RIDICULOSITY
Ri*dic`u*los"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous. [Archaic] Bailey.
RIDICULOUS Ri*dic"u*lous, a. Etym: [L. ridiculosus, ridiculus, fr. ridere to laigh. Cf. Risible.]
1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton.
2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [r.] [It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. Shak.
Syn.
— Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd;
preposterous. See Ludicrous. —- Ri*dic"u*lous*ly, adv.
— Ri*dic"u*lous*ness, n.
RIDING Rid"ing, n. Etym: [For thriding, Icel. pr the third part, fr. pri third, akin to E. third. See Third.]