roast

1. 1.

   cook with dry heat, usually in an oven

   “roast the turkey”

   Broadercook

   Narrowerpan roast

   cooking

2. 2.

   subject to laughter or ridicule

   “The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house”

   “The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher”

   “His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday”

   Synonymsridiculeguyblackguardlaugh atjest atribmake funpoke fun

   Broadermock

   Narrowerteasesatirizedebunkstultify

1. 1.

   (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

   Synonymsroasted

   Similarcooked

Other forms of roast

plural

roasts·

past tense

roasted·

present participle

roasting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about roast

What does roast mean?

roast means "a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roast?

roast has 1 syllable: roast. In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊst/.

What is another word for roast?

Close synonyms include joint, knock, ridicule, guy, blackguard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roast a common word?

roast is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.