'Satire' definitions:
Definition of 'satire'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
Definition of 'Satire'
From: GCIDE
- 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
Synonyms of 'satire'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agile wit,
- alba,
- amoebean verse,
- anacreontic,
- Atticism,
- 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,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epic poetry,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- erotic poetry,
- esprit,
- exaggeration,
- farce,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- Goliardic verse,
- haiku,
- hatchet job,
- heroic poetry,
- Horatian ode,
- Hudibrastic verse,
- humor,
- idyll,
- imagist verse,
- imitation,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- Italian sonnet,
- 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,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- poison pen,
- polyphonic prose,
- pretty wit,
- prose poetry,
- prothalamium,
- quick wit,
- Rabelaisian,
- raillery,
- ready wit,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- runic verse,
- salt,
- Sapphic ode,
- sarcasm,
- satiric wit,
- satirical poetry,
- savor of wit,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- 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