Synonyms of mock

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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
• 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

Examples of mock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

Meanwhile in 2020, Trump openly mocked President Biden for campaigning from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. —Ivana Saric, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024

In college, a friend of mine would always mock my sense of direction. —Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024

Adjective

The party filed a public records request for documents associated with the mock elections run to test the new system. —Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024

Students participated in a relay race to the ballot box, a mock election with sample 2024 ballots, and a tug of war meant to illustrate how the number of people on each side can sway the outcome of a contest. —Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2024

Noun

Some have joked that will be the case considering this is expected to be among the weakest draft classes in an extremely long time, and the number of unknown foreign players at the top of many mocks could make this tricky for executives to judge. —Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2024

In addition, there already appears to be a consensus regarding the Heat’s no-draft (at least at No. 15) list, based on the latest mock drafts offered by ESPN, The Ringer and The Athletic. —Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2024