satire
n. literary work designed to demonstrate the negative aspects of human folly through the use of mockery and derision | ||||
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Satire Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Satire
(a.)
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
(a.)
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.
(a.)
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
(a.)
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.
| WordNet 2.0 |
satire
Noun
1. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift
(synonym) sarcasm, irony, caustic remark
(hypernym) wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
(attribute) sarcastic
(derivation) satirize, satirise, lampoon
Noun
1. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift
(synonym) sarcasm, irony, caustic remark
(hypernym) wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
(attribute) sarcastic
(derivation) satirize, satirise, lampoon
| The Devil's Dictionary |
SATIRE
Satire, (n.)
An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.
Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung
In the dead language of a mummy's tongue,
For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well --
Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell.
Had it been such as consecrates the Bible
Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel.
Barney Stims
Satire, (n.)
An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.
Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung
In the dead language of a mummy's tongue,
For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well --
Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell.
Had it been such as consecrates the Bible
Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel.
Barney Stims
| hEnglish - advanced version |
satire
satire
\sat"ire\ (?; in eng. often &?;; 277), n. [l. satira, satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) 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 cf. saturate.]
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.
satire
\sat"ire\ (?; in eng. often &?;; 277), n. [l. satira, satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) 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 cf. saturate.]
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.
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satire
The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
| Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1 |
satire
aoir f.
aoir f.
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Gogan
Gogan = n. satire, a lampoon
Gogan = n. satire, a lampoon
Gwatwargerdd
Gwatwargerdd = n. irony, satire
Satire Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English-Latin Online Dictionary |
satire
satura
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Satire Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Satire
Satire (from Latin satura, not from the Greek mythological figure satyr) is a literary genre, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement. It is used in graphic arts and performing arts as well. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a witty manner.
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