deride
/dəˈɹaɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Cicero beeing Augur, derideth the Auguries, and blames men for letting their actions relie vpon the voyce of a Crovve or a Davve."
- "And the people ſtood beholding ⁊ the rulers alſo with them derided him [Jesus], ſaying, hee ſaued others, let him ſaue himſelfe, if he be Chriſt, yͤ choſen of God."
- "I knovv there be many baſe, impudent, and braſen-faced roagues, […] let them be proued, perjured, ſtigmatized, convict roagues, theeues, traitors, looſe their ears, be vvhipped, branded, carted, pointed at, hiſſed, reviled, and derided, vvith Ballio the baud in Plautus, they reioice at it, […]"
- "And thou Gallant, that readeſt and derideſt this madneſſe of Faſhion, if thine eyes vvere not dazeled vvith lightneſſe (light I cannot call it) of ſelfe-reflected Vanitie, mighteſt ſee as Monſter-like faſhions at home, and a more faſhionly Monſter of thy ſelfe; […]"
- "[H]ee [Noah] of thir vvicked vvayes / Shall them admoniſh, […] and ſhall returne / Of them derided, but of God obſervd / The one juſt Man alive; by his command / Shall build a vvondrous Ark, as thou beheldſt, / To ſave himſelf and houſhold from amidſt / A VVorld devote to univerſal rack."
- "Thou derideſt ſervants for obeying diligently their higheſt maſter? and for doing diligently the greateſt, beſt and needfulleſt vvork in all the vvorld? And is this a good example for thy ovvn ſervants?"
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dērīdēre, the present active infinitive of dērīdeō (“to laugh at, make fun of, mock, deride”), from dē- (prefix denoting putting down or subjecting to indignity) + rīdeō (“to laugh; to laugh at, mock, ridicule”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”) (referring to turning the mouth to smile) or *wreyd- (“to carve; to scratch”)). cognates * Old French dérider (rare), derire
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dəˈɹaɪd/
- British English: /dɪˈɹaɪd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
derides (present, singular)
deriding (participle, present)
derided (participle, past)
derided (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
derided (first person, past)
deridest (archaic, present)
derided (past, second person)
deridedst (archaic, past)
derideth (archaic, present)
derided (past, singular)