satirical
/səˈtɪɹɪkəl/
satirical adjective: of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.
Adjective
satirical (comparative more satirical, superlative most satirical)
- Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.
- Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.
- Given his remarks in The English People about the dangers of Standard English, and the fact that the satirical Newspeak of Nineteen Eighty-Four is an engineered language[…]2000 October 15, John E. Joseph, Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language, →ISBN, page 155
- Synonyms:
- satiric
satirical meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog
satirical in Tamil
- வசைமுறையான, வஞ்சப்புகழ்ச்சியான
satirical in Malayalam
- പരിഹാസത്തോടെ, ശകാരപരമായ, നിന്ദഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്ന
satirical in Kannada
- ವಿಡಂಬನಾತ್ಮಕ, ಅಪಹಾಸ್ಯಕಾರಿ
satirical in Tagalog
- of or pertaining to satire
- mapang-uroy
Synonyms of satirical
Forms of satirical
| comparative | more satirical |
|---|---|
| superlative | most satirical |
Origin of satirical
From satire + -ical.
Words formed from satirical
Questions about satirical
- What does satirical mean?
- Satirical means of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.
- What is satirical in Tamil?
- Satirical in Tamil is வசைமுறையான, வஞ்சப்புகழ்ச்சியான. See Satirical meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is satirical?
- Satirical is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce satirical?
- Satirical is pronounced /səˈtɪɹɪkəl/.
Words near satirical in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: satirical (page history and authors); satirical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); satirical (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); satirical (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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