satirical

English

Etymology

From satire +‎ -ical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈtɪɹɪkəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɹɪkəl

Adjective

satirical (comparative more satirical, superlative most satirical)

1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.

   Synonym: satiric

   Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.

   • 2000 October 15, John E. Joseph, Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language‎^[1], →ISBN, page 155:

     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 […]

Derived terms

• satirically

Translations

of or pertaining to satire

• Albanian: satirik (sq)
• Asturian: satíricu
• Belarusian: сатыры́чны (satyrýčny)
• Bulgarian: сатири́чен (bg) (satiríčen)
• Catalan: satíric
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 諷刺的／讽刺的 (zh) (fěngcì de)

• Czech: satirický
• Danish: satirisk
• Dutch: satirisch (nl)
• Esperanto: satira
• French: satirique (fr)
• Galician: satírico
• German: satirisch (de)
• Haitian Creole: satirik
• Ido: satirema
• Irish: aorach
• Italian: satirico (it)
• Japanese: 風刺的な (ふうしてきな, fūshiteki na)
• Kazakh: сатиралық (satiralyq)
• Korean: 풍자적(諷刺的) (pungjajeok)
• Latin: satiricus
• Latvian: satīrisks
• Macedonian: сатиричен (satiričen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: satirisk

• Polish: satyryczny (pl)
• Portuguese: satírico (pt)
• Romanian: satiric (ro)
• Russian: сатири́ческий (ru) (satiríčeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgaiteach
• Slovak: satirický
• Slovene: satiričen
• Spanish: satírico (es)
• Tagalog: mapang-uroy
• Ukrainian: сатири́чний (satyrýčnyj)
• Welsh: dychanol (cy)

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