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derision

English

Etymology

From Old French derision, from Latin d?r?si?nem, accusative of d?r?si?, from d?r?d?re ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d??????n/
  • Rhymes: -???n

Noun

derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)

  1. Act of treating with disdain.
  2. Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:
      Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]

Related terms

  • deride
  • derider
  • ridicule
  • ridiculous
  • ridiculosity

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • Ironside, ironised, ironside, resinoid

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loathing

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??ð??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?lo?ð??/
  • Rhymes: -??ð??

Noun

loathing (countable and uncountable, plural loathings)

  1. Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.

Translations

Verb

loathing

  1. present participle of loathe
  2. (obsolete) present participle of loath

Anagrams

  • Hotaling

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