Synonyms of mocking

mocking 1 of 3

adjective

as in sardonic

Related Words

• sardonic
• derisive
• scornful
• skeptical
• negativistic
• ironic
• sarcastic
• negative
• distrustful
• cynical
• defeatist
• fatalistic
• suspicious
• mistrustful
• negativist
• misanthropic
• pessimistic
• jaded
• unsentimental
• worldly-wise
• sophisticated
• hard-edged
• hard-bitten
• hardcase
• hard-boiled

Dissimilar Words

• trusting
• positive
• cheerful
• optimistic
• trustful
• unsuspicious
• innocent
• unsophisticated
• naive
• positivist
• ingenuous
• positivistic
• romantic
• uncynical
• impractical
• idealistic
• sentimental
• saccharine
• rose-colored
• mushy
• sappy
• maudlin

mocking

2 of 3

noun

as in ridiculing

Related Words

• ridiculing
• kidding
• fooling
• ribbing
• razzing
• richness
• facetiousness
• joke
• wordplay
• laugh
• humor
• gag
• witticism
• funniness
• humorousness
• drollness
• wit
• wisecrack
• quip
• barb
• hilariousness
• gambit
• pleasantry
• banter
• jesting
• sally
• jest
• raillery
• dig
• nothings
• small talk
• badinage
• crack
• persiflage
• repartee
• chaff
• chatter
• waggery
• joshing
• chitchat
• gossip
• give-and-take
• backchat

mocking

3 of 3

verb

present participle of mock

1

as in parodying

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of

team members good-naturedly mocked the coach's familiar bellow

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parodying
• imitating
• doing
• mimicking
• caricaturing
• spoofing
• burlesquing
• ridiculing
• sending up
• emulating
• satirizing
• playing
• deriding
• simulating
• travestying
• lampooning
• performing
• pretending
• reproducing
• gibing
• aping
• feigning
• parroting
• replicating
• shamming
• enhancing
• monkeying
• duplicating
• elaborating
• exaggerating
• acting
• faking
• stretching
• dissembling
• personating
• pantomiming
• miming
• embroidering
• embellishing
• expanding
• amplifying
• counterfeiting
• impersonating
• padding
• pasquinading
• overstating
• copycatting
• playing up
• magnifying
• enlarging (on or upon)
• overdrawing
• putting on
• fleshing (out)

2

as in taunting

to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter

the fashion gurus loved to mock the famous couple for their unsophisticated clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ridiculing
• taunting
• deriding
• teasing
• jeering
• parodying
• gibing
• laughing (at)
• skewering
• scouting
• imitating
• making fun of
• poking fun at
• tormenting
• harassing
• making sport of
• ragging on
• shooting down
• disparaging
• belittling
• scorning
• targeting
• cocking snooks (at)
• decrying
• cocking a snook (at)
• mimicking
• razzing
• quizzing
• sneering (at)
• scoffing (at)
• satirizing
• caricaturing
• ribbing
• baiting
• kidding
• twitting
• heckling
• lampooning
• pestering
• rallying
• riding
• bad-mouthing
• pooh-poohing
• ragging
• tweaking
• aping
• joshing
• bugging
• parroting
• needling
• pillorying
• chaffing
• hassling
• jiving
• burlesquing
• harrying
• taking off (on)
• catcalling
• barracking
• putting down
• travestying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approving
• endorsing
• commending
• applauding
• sanctioning

3

as in disobeying

to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of

a person willing to mock the religious prohibition against working on the Sabbath

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disobeying
• ignoring
• defying
• violating
• dismissing
• opposing
• rejecting
• rebelling (against)
• resisting
• fighting
• disregarding
• scorning
• overlooking
• flouting
• withstanding
• revolting (against)
• disobliging
• passing over
• combating
• disputing
• breaching
• contesting
• infringing
• pooh-poohing
• brushing (off)
• transgressing
• scoffing (at)
• tuning out
• breaking
• winking (at)
• shrugging off
• bucking
• mutinying (against)
• overpassing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• following
• obeying
• conforming (to)
• complying (with)
• serving
• submitting (to)
• yielding (to)
• surrendering (to)
• minding
• deferring (to)
• stooping (to)
• conceding (to)
• observing
• cooperating (with)
• keeping
• capitulating (to)
• hearing
• watching
• regarding
• agreeing (to)
• noticing
• noting
• obliging
• goose-stepping (to)
• attending
• marking
• listening (to)
• assenting (to)
• acceding (to)
• acquiescing (to)
• heeding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mocking

Adjective

To get a sense of his whole deal, look no further than the half-mocking, half-earnest title of his latest album, Country! — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025

Noun

Paul’s confidence was growing, and the left tackle seemingly responded to his challengers by laughing at their efforts in a mocking manner. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026

Arteta and his Arsenal squad have, of course, downplayed the noise around the club this season, arguing that the widespread mocking doesn’t impact the inner sanctum of the team. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026

Afroman celebrated his legal victory in a video on Wednesday after winning a defamation lawsuit filed by several Ohio sheriff's deputies who accused the rapper of mocking and allegedly lying about them in music videos, following a 2022 raid on his home. — Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026

Mutch was likely made aware of Chandler’s mocking verses, as some of Chandler’s biographers suggest. — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026

The decision received some mocking on social media. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026

Strip Law is a show that prefers to keep everything very close to the surface, including its case-of-the-week mocking of how surface-level Las Vegas is — even if roughly half those cases don’t have much to do with Vegas at all. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026

In his verse, Bad Bunny directly addresses the chats, calling attention to Rosselló’s mocking of the dead from Hurricane María and his rampant homophobia. — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026

With a mocking appreciation for her overbearing family and caustic wit for her younger self, Yajia warmly works from the thesis that kids are extraordinarily weird, scary, and kind-of-dumb creatures who really don’t know any better. — Brian Boone, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025

Verb

Five times in the last two months, the president has sneered at and insulted female reporters, mocking their appearance or dismissing their credentials. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

In 2020, then-ESPN commentator Mark Jones shared posts mocking 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa after Bosa suffered a serious knee injury. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Dean’s King Charles returned to kick off the season 2, episode 2 following last week’s cold open mocking Prince Harry and Meghan Markle amid their move back to the United Kingdom. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026

No one, however, much less a dubious Spanish public who were more used to mocking than celebrating their country’s best GC rider in a generation, believed that Mas could win the race. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Hansen can be cruelly mocking towards his oft-flustered but extremely professional producer Andie Bender (an astonishingly good Merritt Wever). — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026

Mel Gibson has issued something like an apology after mocking an American Sign Language interpreter. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Aug. 2026

Former Ferrari president and chairman Luca di Montezemolo joined analysts and investors in mocking the model as ugly and decidedly un-Ferrari-like at a time where other luxury automakers were scaling back their own EV efforts amid low demand. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

Sexualizing black women and casually mocking working class women is not accepted anymore. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026