satirical

English

Etymology

From satire +‎ -ical.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /səˈtɪɹɪkəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪɹɪkəl

Adjective

satirical (comparative more satirical, superlative most satirical)

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, →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)
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)

Anagrams

racialist

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