Category:Satire

Sat"ire (in eng. often, n. Etym: [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.

2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; Trenchant wit; sarcasm.

Syn. -- lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; Humor.