Synonyms of ridden

ridden

verb

variants or chiefly dialectal rid or rode

past participle of ride

1

as in teased

to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults

that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teased
• bothered
• tried
• annoyed
• irritated
• taunted
• grated
• got
• picked on
• hassled
• baited
• hazed
• heckled
• mocked
• needled
• tested
• ridiculed
• derided
• troubled
• pestered
• burned (up)
• chafed
• aggravated
• jeered
• goaded
• vexed
• plagued
• nagged
• made game of
• bedeviled
• ruffled
• hounded
• gnawed (at)
• griped
• bugged
• hacked (off)
• itched
• tortured
• put out
• riled
• irked
• nettled
• galled
• exasperated
• fretted
• disturbed
• perturbed
• dogged
• rasped
• badgered
• frosted
• piqued
• tormented
• peeved
• terrorized
• beleaguered
• harassed
• agitated
• bullied
• browbeaten
• aggrieved
• gibed
• narked
• spited
• persecuted
• hagridden
• discomforted
• harried
• hectored

2

as in kidded

to make fun of in a good-natured way

his wife couldn't resist riding him for forgetting his own birthday

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teased
• kidded
• roasted
• joked
• razzed
• rallied
• ribbed
• chaffed
• goofed on
• jived
• bantered
• taken the mickey out of
• funned
• joshed
• strung along
• fooled
• jested
• jollied
• quipped
• japed
• wisecracked
• yukked
• gagged

3

as in hovered

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air

a condor riding high in the sky

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hovered
• floated
• sailed
• hung
• drifted
• wafted
• glided
• poised
• swum
• suspended
• dangled
• bobbed
• buoyed
• rafted
• ballooned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• settled
• sunk
• plunged
• lunged
• dived
• submerged
• dipped
• immersed
• submersed

4

as in depended

to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)

our plan for the party rides on whether he can come

Synonyms & Similar Words

• depended
• hung
• based
• turned
• stayed
• established
• founded
• hinged
• rested
• grounded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ridden

Six days after Guillen collapsed while exiting X2, Naomi Greer-Wilkinson rode the roller coaster. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

More than 16 million people have ridden X2, Magic Mountain said in its statement. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Skoloda had ridden the ropes out of the gorge with a Ouray Mountain Rescue volunteer named Annie Quathamer. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

An earlier version of this story incorrectly named the horse ridden by Avery Kucan. — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026

Their album of the same name rode the Billboard 200 for two full years. — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2026

The stock has ridden the soaring prices from the global memory shortage to year-to-date gains of nearly 280%. — Matthew J. Belvedere,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

The ordinance, which passed in a 4-3 vote, tightens rules for how personal electric vehicles can be operated, including where they can be ridden, speed restrictions, equipment requirements and penalties for violations. — Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026

Livingston rode into the Yellowstone Valley for the first time on May 11, 1987. — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 23 Sep. 2026