Synonyms of mocking

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verb (1)

ˈmäk 

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
• fool
• target
• 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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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

mocking

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adjective (2)

as in sardonic

Related 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

Dissimilar Words

• 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

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mocking

Noun

Upon returning to the stage, the performer — holding a drink in one hand — shows the audience his sore knuckles after the altercation and seemingly mocks the DJ. —Natalia Cano, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2025

Lopez Benitez claimed one officer showed him a photo of his arrest and mocked him for crying. —Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025

Verb

The California Post will launch in early 2026, and mock cover images show that the New York paper’s gossip section Page Six will make the move westward as well. —Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025

Here are three teams that made an offer in our mock exercise. —Jon MacHota, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025

Adjective

Most of the latest mock drafts have McNeeley going anywhere from pick No. 15 to No. 19. —Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2025

Perfect for Any Occasion This frozen mock margarita isn’t just for Cinco de Mayo. —Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2025

Noun

On the road, opposing crowds engage in mocking chants, begging the Lakers coach to put him in. —Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025

While this might appear to be a cause of concern, some corners of the internet are celebrating and mocking S&P and DOW markets nosebombing. —Callum Booth, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025