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mock
Synonyms and Antonyms of mock
- mock turtle soup
- since I had inadvertently learned what I was getting, I opened the present with mock surprise
automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic
double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous
exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)
cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering
conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden
artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
mock
Synonyms and Antonyms of mock
- they made a mock of the new recruit in front of the whole unit
- obviously, the "priceless" Grecian urn that is destroyed in the movie was a mock
mock
Synonyms and Antonyms of mock
- team members good-naturedly mocked the coach's familiar bellow
deride, gibe (or jibe), ridicule
duplicate, emulate, replicate, reproduce
act, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pretend, sham, simulate
elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, play up, stretch
amplify, enhance, enlarge (on or upon), expand, flesh (out), overdraw, overstate, put on
- the fashion gurus loved to mock the famous couple for their unsophisticated clothes
deride, gibe (or jibe), jeer, laugh (at), ridicule, scout, shoot down, skewer
bad-mouth, belittle, decry, disparage, pooh-pooh (also pooh), put down
chaff, jive, josh, kid, quiz, rally, razz, rib, ride, tease, tweak, twit
bait, barrack [chiefly British], bug, catcall, harass, harry, hassle, heckle, needle, pester, rag, target, taunt, torment
ape, burlesque, caricature, imitate, lampoon, mimic, parody, parrot, pillory, satirize, take off (on), travesty
- a person willing to mock the religious prohibition against working on the Sabbath
mutiny (against), revolt (against)
disregard, ignore, overlook, overpass, pass over, tune out
brush off, dismiss, flout, pooh-pooh (also pooh), reject, scoff (at), scorn, shrug off, wink (at)
breach, break, infringe, transgress, violate
buck, combat, contest, dispute, fight, oppose, resist, withstand
Synonym Discussion of mock
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- consistently ridiculed everything she said
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- derided their efforts to start their own business
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- youngsters began to mock the helpless wino
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- hometown fans taunted the visiting team
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