Word Meanings - SATIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up

Additional info about word: SATIRE

a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal. 2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. Syn. -- Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SATIRE)

• Burlesque
• Parody
• travesty
• satire
• caricature
• grotesque
• droll
• farcical
• comic
• ludicrous
• Invective
• Obloquy
• denunciation
• castigation
• vituperation
• reprobation
• abuse
• railing
• sarcasm
• diatribe
• reproach
• Irony
• Satire
• banter
• quiz
• rally
• taunt
• raillery
• ridicule
• Ridicule
• Derision
• burlesque
• mockery
• irony
• jeer
• sneer
• cachinnation
• disrespect
• Sarcasm
• Gibe
• chaff
• sardonicism

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SATIRE)

• Compliment
• flatter
• panegyrize
• eulogize
• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend

Related words: (words related to SATIRE)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• SARCASM
  A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• RAIL
  An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• COMICAL
  1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• INVECTIVE
  Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
• SARCASMOUS
  Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.