Derisory

Definition: Derisory

Derisory

Adjective

1. Completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous".

Synonyms: Derisory

Synonyms: absurd (adj), laughable (adj), ludicrous (adj), nonsensical (adj), preposterous (adj), ridiculous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ridicule	Adjective: derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic; scurrilous; (disrespectful).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Derisory

Specialty definitions using "derisory": mess-dos ♦ Prisoner of Bill. (references)

Etymologies containing "derisory": Subderisorious. (references)

"Derisory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.86% of the time. "Derisory" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.86%	87	35,390
Noun (proper)	1.14%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	88	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "derisory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tallës (derisive, jeering, mocking, quizzical, ridicule, scoffer), përqeshës. (various references)

Arabic		‏سخرى (derisive), ‏ساخر (biting, bitter, cutting, cynic, cynical, derisive, epigram, giber, ironic, ironical, irradiant, lampooner, lampoonist, laughable, persiflage, quizzical, sarcastic, sardonic, saturnine, sneerer, snide, tongue in cheek, wry), ‏باعث على السخرية (derisive). (various references)

Bulgarian		смешен (amusing, comic, comical, derisive, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, risible, screwy), насмешлив (derisive, flip, flippant, jesting, quizzical, railing), ироничен (bland, derisive, dry, ironic, pawky, sly). (various references)

Czech		smìšný (antic, facetious, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, piffling, quizzical, ridiculous, risible), nepatrný (exiguous, imperceptible, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, petty, scant, scanty, slight, slim, small, thin, trifling). (various references)

French		dérisoire (derisive), railleur (derisive), moqueur (derider, deridingly, derisive). (various references)

Greek		εμπαικτικόσ (mocking). (various references)

Hebrew		מל�'ל�' (derisive), ל�'ל�'� י (derisive, mordant, quizzical, sarcastic, sardonic). (various references)

Hungarian		gúnyos (biting, bland, derisive, have a fling at sy, ironic, ironical, mordant, sarcastic, sarky, satirical, scornful, to cover sy with ridicule), gúnyolódó (bobber, bobbish, derisive, mocker, rallying, scoffer, scoffing, taunter, taunting). (various references)

Pig Latin		erisoryday

Portuguese		ridículo (apish, awful, comic, comical, derisive, extravagantly, farcy, foolish, irony, laughing, ludicrousness, prepotency, quizzical, ragtime, ridicule, ridiculous, risible, satire). (various references)

Russian		насмешливый (derisive, quizzical, scornful, sneerful, sneering, tongue in cheek, waggish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		podrugljiv (derisive, jeering, mocking, quizzical, ridicule, sneering, snide, taunting). (various references)

Spanish		irrisorio (derisive), burlón (derisive, jesting, mocking, quiz, quizzical, quizzing, scoffer, sneering, teasing, wag). (various references)

Swedish		löjlig (absurd, derisive, foolish, funny, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), hånfull (contemptuous, derisive, jeering, mocking, sardonic, scornful, sneering), gäckande (derisive, elusive, frustration), futtig (cheap, derisive, footling, frivolous, futile, mean, measly, paltry, picayune, potty). (various references)

Turkish		gülünç (amusing, burlesque, camp, comic, derisive, droll, fantastic, fantastical, foolish, funny, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), alay konusu olan (derisive), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukranian		сміховинний (absurd, derisive, farcical, ridiculous, screaming, splitting), глузливий (derisive, quizzical, sarcastic, sarcastical, satirical), насмішкуватий (derisive, scoffing, sneering). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Derisory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dereso, Derramore, Erisort. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "derisory" (pronounced 'De*ri"so*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-r-r-s-y"
	-2 letters: derris, dories, dorser, driers, dryers, orders, riders, rosery, rosier, yirred.
	-3 letters: derry, direr, doers, dorrs, doser, drier, dries, dryer, dyers, eidos, eyrir, order, orris, osier, oyers, redos, redry, resid, resod, rider, rides, riser, rosed, serry, sired, sorer, sorry, yirds, yirrs, yores.
	-4 letters: deys, dies, dire, doer, does, dore, dorr, dors, dory, dose, drys.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-r-r-s-y"
	+1 letter: joyriders.
	+2 letters: disorderly.
	+3 letters: pyrethroids, rediscovery.
	+4 letters: borohydrides, disorderedly, diversionary, hydrospheric, prediscovery, rehydrations, wordsmithery.
	+5 letters: digressionary, discretionary, dysmenorrheic, ferrocyanides, hydrographies, hyperhidroses, hyperhidrosis, odoriferously, overdiversity.
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