an object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.-remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.-quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.-to laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.-ridiculous.