satire

3 definitions found

satire - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to
        reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade;
          burlesque; wit; humor.
          [1913 Webster] Satiric

satire - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  satire
      n 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"--
           Jonathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark
           ]

satire - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  147 Moby Thesaurus words for "satire":
     Atticism, English sonnet, Goliardic verse, Horatian ode,
     Hudibrastic verse, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode,
     Rabelaisian, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, agile wit, alba,
     amoebean verse, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, banter,
     black humor, bucolic, burlesque, canso, caricature, cartoon,
     causticity, chaffing, chanson, clerihew, comedy, concrete poetry,
     cubist poetry, cynicism, dirge, dithyramb, dramatic poetry,
     dry wit, eclogue, elegiac poetry, elegy, epic, epic poetry,
     epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos,
     erotic poetry, esprit, exaggeration, farce, georgic, ghazel, haiku,
     hatchet job, heroic poetry, humor, idyll, imagist verse, imitation,
     innuendo, invective, irony, jingle, lampoon, light verse, limerick,
     lyric, madrigal, malicious parody, melic poetry,
     metaphysical poetry, mock-heroic poetry, mockery, monody,
     narrative poem, narrative poetry, nimble wit, nursery rhyme, ode,
     oral poetry, palinode, parody, pasquil, pasquin, pasquinade,
     pastiche, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle,
     persiflage, pleasantry, poem, poison pen, polyphonic prose,
     pretty wit, prose poetry, prothalamium, quick wit, raillery,
     ready wit, rhyme, ridicule, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay,
     runic verse, salt, sarcasm, satiric wit, satirical poetry,
     savor of wit, sestina, slapstick, slapstick humor, sloka, song,
     sonnet, sonnet sequence, spoof, spoofery, spoofing, squib,
     stichomythia, subtle wit, symbolist verse, take-off, takeoff,
     tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, travesty, triolet,
     troubadour poem, vers de societe, verse, verselet, versicle,
     villanelle, virelay, visual humor, wicked imitation, wit