satire

Speech parts

1. satire - Noun

2. satire - Adjective

Meaning

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.

Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

irony sarcasm lampoon ridicule burlesque parody exaggeration caricature mockery scorn derision wit spoof pasquinade caustic remark
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Antonyms

fact reality accuracy gravity authenticity earnest
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Hypernyms

humor humour wit witticism wittiness

Phrases with the word

comedic satire black satire

Anagrams

striae terasi Tersia

Examples

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald

I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Lord Byron

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. Vladimir Nabokov

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. Irish Proverb

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

satiny satiogenic sation satiric satirical satirical article