different between travesty vs satire

English

Etymology

From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) +? vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vesti? (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of transvest.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?v??s-t?, tr?v??s-t?, IPA^(key): /?t?æv.?s.ti/, /?t?æv.?s.ti/
• Hyphenation: trav?es?ty

Noun

travesty (plural travesties)

1. An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.
   • 1845, Thomas De Quincey, William Godwin

     The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.

2. A parody or stylistic imitation.
3. (derogatory) A grossly inferior imitation.

   A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice.

4. (colloquial, proscribed) An appalling version of something.

Synonyms

• caricature
• feign

Antonyms

• veracity

Related terms

Translations

Verb

travesty (third-person singular simple present travesties, present participle travestying, simple past and past participle travestied)

1. (transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.

Further reading

• travesty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• travesty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• travesty at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “travesty”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Etymology

From Middle French satire, from Old French, from Latin satira, from earlier satura, from lanx satura (“full dish”), from feminine of satur. Altered in Latin by influence of Ancient Greek ??????? (sáturos, “satyr”), on the mistaken notion that the form is related to the Greek ????????? ????? (saturikón dráma, “satyr drama”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæta??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæta??/
• Hyphenation: sat?ire

Noun

satire (countable and uncountable, plural satires)

1. (uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
2. (countable) A satirical work.

3. (uncountable, dated) Severity of remark.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Usage notes

Often confused with parody, which does not necessarily have an element of social change.

Anagrams

• striae, striæ, terais, terasi

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sati?r?/, [sa?t?i??]

Noun

satire c (singular definite satiren, plural indefinite satirer)

1. satire

Inflection

Related terms

• satiriker ("satirist")
• satirisere ("satirize")
• satirisk ("satiric", "satirical")

Further reading

• satire on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French satire, German Satire or Latin satira, from Latin satur but influenced by Ancient Greek ??????? (sáturos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??ti?.r?/
• Hyphenation: sa?ti?re
• Rhymes: -i?r?

Noun

satire f (plural satires or satiren)

1. A satire.

Derived terms

• satiriek
• satirisch
• satirist

Related terms

• satyr

French

Noun

satire f (plural satires)

1. satire

Further reading

• “satire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

satire f

1. plural of satira

Anagrams

• ariste, estrai, restai, restia, risate, ritesa, sartie, starei

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin satura, satira

Noun

satire m (definite singular satiren, indefinite plural satirer, definite plural satirene)

1. satire

Derived terms

• satirisk

References

• “satire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin satura, satira

Noun

satire m (definite singular satiren, indefinite plural satirar, definite plural satirane)

1. satire

Derived terms

• satirisk

References

• “satire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.