deride

From Middle French dérider, from Latin deridere (“to mock, laugh at”), from de- (“from, down from”) + ridere (“to laugh”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹaɪd/

deride (third-person singular simple present derides, present participle deriding, simple past and past participle derided)

1. (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.

• See also Thesaurus:ridicule

• derider
• deridingly

• derision
• derisive
• ridicule
• ridiculous
• ridiculosity

• deride in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deride in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Diedre, redied

• Rhymes: -ide

deride

1. third-person singular present of deridere

• reddei

dērīdē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dērīdeō

deride

1. locative singular of deri