satirical

adj

satirical

adj

/səˈtɪɹɪkəl/

Etymology From satire + -ical.

1

Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.

  • Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.
  • 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[…]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:
Derived terms
nonsatirical, satirically, satiricalness, semisatirical, unsatirical

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