ridiculers
Those who mock
Ridiculers are people who mock or make fun of others.
The word carries a slightly formal or literary tone; in everyday speech, you're more likely to hear about people who mock or make fun than ridiculers specifically: His ridiculers were silenced when he won the championship.
Those who taunt
- scoffersPeople who express contempt
- scornersThose expressing derision
- sneerersThose who mock contemptuously
- jeerersThose who scoff loudly
taunters · hecklers · belittlers · insulters · lampooners · detractors · disparagers · denigrators
Those who ridicule folly
- parodistsCreators of humorous imitations
- caricaturistsArtists drawing exaggerated likenesses
- lampoonersThose who ridicule publicly
- cartoonistsCreators of illustrated humor
impersonators · send-up · takeoff · burlesque · farce · travesty · pastiche · comedians
Clowns or wild cards
- teasesMocks playfully
- witsMental quickness and resourcefulness
- banterersPeople who joke around
- prankstersThose who play jokes
comics · jesters · quipsters · wags · clowns · roasters · needlers · joshing
Those who evaluate work
- censurersThose who blame harshly
- condemnersThose who blame harshly
- reproachersThose who censure others
- disapproversPeople who oppose something
objectors · faultfinders · nitpickers · cynics · skeptics · naysayers · debunkers · scrutinizers
Those who cause anguish
- harassersPeople who intimidate repeatedly
- persecutorsThose who cruelly harass
- intimidatorsThose who frighten deliberately
- oppressorsThose who subjugate others
abusers · victimizers · shamers · degraders · humiliators · aggressors · tyrants · threateners
mockers
Those who taunt
- scoffersPeople who express contempt
- scornersThose expressing derision
- sneerersThose who mock contemptuously
jeerers · taunters · hecklers · belittlers · insulters · lampooners · detractors · disparagers · denigrators · scornful
satirists
Those who ridicule folly
- parodistsCreators of humorous imitations
- caricaturistsArtists drawing exaggerated likenesses
- lampoonersThose who ridicule publicly
cartoonists · impersonators · send-up · takeoff · burlesque · farce · travesty · pastiche · comedians · impressionists
jokers
Clowns or wild cards
pranksters · comics · jesters · quipsters · wags · clowns · roasters · needlers · joshing · playful
critics
Those who evaluate work
- censurersThose who blame harshly
- condemnersThose who blame harshly
- reproachersThose who censure others
disapprovers · objectors · faultfinders · nitpickers · cynics · skeptics · naysayers · debunkers · scrutinizers · harsh
tormentors
Those who cause anguish
- harassersPeople who intimidate repeatedly
- persecutorsThose who cruelly harass
- intimidatorsThose who frighten deliberately
oppressors · abusers · victimizers · shamers · degraders · humiliators · aggressors · tyrants · threateners · coercers
ridiculersadmirers
People who appreciate someone
praisers · celebrators · exalters · glorifiers · supporters
ridiculerspromoters
Those who advance causes
uplifters · encouragers · endorsers · validators · protectors
- public ridiculeOpen group mockery