Synonyms of mock

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verb (1)

1

as in to parody

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

• parody
• imitate
• do
• mimic
• spoof
• caricature
• ridicule
• simulate
• burlesque
• send up
• emulate
• satirize
• perform
• play
• deride
• pretend
• travesty
• lampoon
• reproduce
• jibe
• replicate
• gibe
• feign
• duplicate
• fake
• sham
• parrot
• elaborate
• ape
• enhance
• act
• monkey
• exaggerate
• stretch
• personate
• embellish
• pasquinade
• pad
• dissemble
• counterfeit
• amplify
• embroider
• mime
• pantomime
• play up
• copycat
• impersonate
• magnify
• flesh (out)
• expand
• put on
• overstate
• enlarge (on or upon)
• overdraw

2

as in to ridicule

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

• ridicule
• deride
• taunt
• tease
• jeer
• parody
• laugh (at)
• jibe
• gibe
• scout
• imitate
• rag on
• skewer
• make fun of
• poke fun at
• harass
• shoot down
• torment
• make sport of
• scorn
• target
• disparage
• cock snooks (at)
• decry
• mimic
• belittle
• scoff (at)
• cock a snook (at)
• sneer (at)
• satirize
• caricature
• pooh
• quiz
• bait
• rag
• rally
• tweak
• lampoon
• heckle
• rib
• ride
• razz
• pooh-pooh
• bad-mouth
• pester
• twit
• needle
• kid
• parrot
• bug
• jive
• pillory
• ape
• take off (on)
• put down
• burlesque
• harry
• chaff
• travesty
• hassle
• josh
• catcall
• barrack

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approve
• endorse
• commend
• applaud
• indorse
• sanction

3

as in to disobey

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

• disobey
• ignore
• violate
• defy
• dismiss
• reject
• oppose
• resist
• rebel (against)
• fight
• disregard
• scorn
• revolt (against)
• overlook
• pass over
• tune out
• withstand
• flout
• scoff (at)
• combat
• contest
• dispute
• brush (off)
• infringe
• shrug off
• disoblige
• pooh
• pooh-pooh
• break
• breach
• wink (at)
• transgress
• mutiny (against)
• overpass
• buck

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conform (to)
• follow
• comply (with)
• serve
• obey
• submit (to)
• yield (to)
• mind
• concede (to)
• surrender (to)
• defer (to)
• cooperate (with)
• keep
• observe
• agree (to)
• capitulate (to)
• stoop (to)
• hear
• goose-step (to)
• watch
• accede (to)
• attend
• listen (to)
• notice
• assent (to)
• note
• regard
• mark
• oblige
• heed
• acquiesce (to)

mock

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adjective (1)

1

as in faux

being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials

mock turtle soup

Synonyms & Similar Words

• faux
• simulated
• fake
• synthetic
• dummy
• imitation
• artificial
• false
• mimic
• imitative
• pretend
• sham
• substitute
• manufactured
• ersatz
• bogus
• factitious
• designer
• counterfeit
• process
• deceptive
• fabricated
• manipulated
• engineered
• man-made
• pseudo
• cultured
• forged
• concocted
• phoney
• misleading
• unauthentic
• fraudulent
• phony
• feigned
• doctored
• adulterated
• fudged
• juggled
• spurious
• tampered (with)
• affected
• pinchbeck
• brummagem

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• real
• genuine
• natural
• true
• legitimate
• bona fide
• authentic
• valuable
• pure
• quality
• premium
• unadulterated

2

as in fake

lacking in natural or spontaneous quality

since I had inadvertently learned what I was getting, I opened the present with mock surprise

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fake
• strained
• false
• simulated
• pseudo
• unnatural
• mechanical
• exaggerated
• affected
• artificial
• forced
• contrived
• phoney
• assumed
• feigned
• sham
• pretended
• plastic
• phony
• theatric
• theatrical
• bogus
• spurious
• factitious
• cute
• hollow
• put-on
• pat
• empty
• calculated
• automatic
• deliberate
• formal
• unreal
• manufactured
• fabricated
• hypocritical
• concocted
• canned
• stiff
• unrealistic
• wooden
• labored
• conventional
• insincere
• facile
• unauthentic
• melodramatic
• hokey
• conscious
• unctuous
• stylized
• histrionic
• cultivated
• rigid
• mealy
• mincing
• mealymouthed
• studied
• premeditated
• impersonal
• two-faced
• genteel
• simpering
• cutesy
• overdone
• artful
• overacted
• double-dealing
• left-handed
• inflexible
• overrefined
• goody-goody

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• real
• genuine
• spontaneous
• natural
• unaffected
• true
• realistic
• artless
• bona fide
• right
• authentic
• sincere
• honest
• easy
• unfeigned
• ingenuous
• unforced
• smooth
• uncontrived
• impromptu
• effortless
• unconscious
• instinctive
• extemporaneous
• unpretending
• impulsive
• unrehearsed
• unstudied
• unprompted

mock

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noun (1)

1

as in joke

a person or thing that is made fun of

they made a mock of the new recruit in front of the whole unit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• joke
• target
• fool
• mockery
• victim
• butt
• derision
• jest
• sport
• laughingstock
• mark
• pigeon
• monkey
• sucker
• gull
• dupe
• chump
• fall guy
• sap

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• favorite
• pet
• darling

2

as in copy

something that is made to look exactly like something else

obviously, the "priceless" Grecian urn that is destroyed in the movie was a mock

Synonyms & Similar Words

• copy
• reproduction
• replica
• imitation
• version
• duplicate
• clone
• replication
• dummy
• dupe
• carbon copy
• carbon
• facsimile
• duplication
• simulation
• reduplication
• reconstruction
• fake
• miniature
• sham
• phoney
• counterfeit
• forgery
• mock-up
• rubber stamp
• print
• phony
• impression
• knockoff
• rip-off
• image
• semblance
• spare
• reincarnation
• approximation
• likeness
• re-creation
• shadow
• reserve
• extra
• imprint

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• prototype
• original
• archetype

mocking

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adjective (2)

as in sardonic

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sardonic
• derisive
• scornful
• skeptical
• ironical
• 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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

mocking

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noun (2)

as in ridiculing

Synonyms & Similar 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

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verb (2)

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
• spoofing
• caricaturing
• ridiculing
• burlesquing
• emulating
• sending up
• simulating
• playing
• satirizing
• deriding
• performing
• travestying
• pretending
• lampooning
• reproducing
• gibing
• aping
• feigning
• parroting
• jibing
• replicating
• enhancing
• shamming
• monkeying
• duplicating
• acting
• exaggerating
• stretching
• elaborating
• personating
• faking
• dissembling
• 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
• jibing
• harassing
• tormenting
• making fun of
• poking fun at
• making sport of
• ragging on
• shooting down
• targeting
• disparaging
• belittling
• scorning
• cocking snooks (at)
• decrying
• cocking a snook (at)
• mimicking
• razzing
• sneering (at)
• scoffing (at)
• caricaturing
• satirizing
• quizzing
• baiting
• ribbing
• twitting
• kidding
• heckling
• lampooning
• pestering
• rallying
• riding
• bad-mouthing
• poohing
• ragging
• tweaking
• pooh-poohing
• aping
• joshing
• parroting
• bugging
• needling
• pillorying
• chaffing
• hassling
• jiving
• burlesquing
• harrying
• taking off (on)
• catcalling
• barracking
• putting down
• travestying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approving
• endorsing
• commending
• applauding
• sanctioning
• indorsing

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
• resisting
• rebelling (against)
• fighting
• disregarding
• scorning
• overlooking
• flouting
• withstanding
• revolting (against)
• disobliging
• passing over
• combating
• disputing
• combatting
• breaching
• contesting
• infringing
• pooh-poohing
• brushing (off)
• transgressing
• scoffing (at)
• tuning out
• breaking
• winking (at)
• shrugging off
• poohing
• 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