Difference between Make Fun and Ridicule

MAKE FUN vs RIDICULE: NOUN

Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
The act of deriding or treating with contempt
The act of using words, gestures, images, or other products of expression to evoke laughter or contemptuous feelings regarding a person or thing.
The words or other products of expression used in this way.
A corruption of reticule, formerly common.
Mocking or jesting words intended to excite laughter, with more or less contempt, at the expense of the person or thing of whom they are spoken or written; also, action or gesture designed to produce the same effect.
An object of mockery or contemptuous jesting.
Synonyms Derision, mockery, gibe, jeer, sneer. See satire, ludicrous, and banter, verb
An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
Ridiculousness.

Subject to laughter or ridicule
To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of

To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
To expose to ridicule; make fun of.

Ridiculous.
To bring ridicule upon a person or thing; make some one or something ridiculous; cause contemptuous laughter.
Synonyms Deride, Mock, etc. (see taunt), jeer at, scoff at, scout; rally, make fun of, lampoon. See the noun.
To treat with ridicule; treat with contemptuous merriment; represent as deserving of contemptuous mirth; mock; make sport or game of; deride.

Scomm, Deridingly, Bemock, Chiack, Outlaugh, Laugh down, Subsannation, Ridiculize, Blackguard, Jest at, Rib, Laugh at, Ridicule, Poke fun, Guy

Laughable, Laughingstock, Deride, Caricature, Joke, Mockery, Scorn, Make fun, Jest at, Rib, Laugh at, Guy, Blackguard, Poke fun, Derision

Hething, Scomm, Deridingly, Bemock, Chiack, Outlaugh, Laugh down, Subsannation, Ridiculize, Blackguard, Rib, Laugh at, Ridicule, Poke fun, Guy

Satire, Mock, Laughable, Deride, Caricature, Joke, Mockery, Scorn, Make fun, Rib, Laugh at, Guy, Blackguard, Poke fun, Derision

Those of you who relish and make fun of his disability are not much better than candidate Trump making fun of the disabled reporter.
So does it make me racist to make fun of a redneck accent?
These would make fun Christmas gifts or would even just be a fun Christmas activity for kids to do.
These inspirational coloring pages make fun gifts, and are great for church, play dates, or just coloring for fun!
And that person continued to make everybody make fun of me.
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Spring time fun dancing, buzz around and socialize with friends, enjoy snacks and make fun memories!
Besides, he continues, if you can't make fun of mentally retarded people, who can you make fun of.
Everybody knows I only make fun of people I love, which is why I never make fun of the French.
The next segment we make fun of Biden and then proceed to make fun of Nancy Pelosi and everything else.

Saints ridicule others for their reliance on revelation.
But their ridicule was not isolated to Trump.
Occupy movement as their enemy, and ridicule them.
Kotlikoff worries about being held up for ridicule.
Expose any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule.
In general they are a subject of ridicule.
It exposes by ridicule the danger of behaviour.
Obsession to the point of ridiculous merits ridicule.
Mad Libs, but with love instead of ridicule.
Andrew Korner Gerard Baden-Clay My Comment Opinion LETTER: Ridicule at 'stoner sloth' drug message AUSTRALIAN politics has once again opened itself to world ridicule.