Antonyms for mock
mɒkmock

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mock

   A sneer may be simply a contemptuous facial contortion, or it may be some brief satirical utterance that throws a contemptuous side-light on what it attacks without attempting to prove or disprove; a depreciatory implication may be given in a sneer such as could only be answered by elaborate argument or proof, which would seem to give the attack undue importance:

   Who can refute a sneer?

   Paley Moral Philosophy bk. v, ch. ix.

   A fling is careless and commonly pettish; a taunt is intentionally insulting and provoking; the sneer is supercilious; the taunt is defiant. The jeer and gibe are uttered; the gibe is bitter, and often sly or covert; the jeer is rude and open. A scoff may be in act or word, and is commonly directed against that which claims honor, reverence, or worship. Compare BANTER.

   Synonyms:
   fling, gibe, jeer, scoff, sneer, taunt

   Preposition:
   Only an essentially vicious mind is capable of a sneer at virtue.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. mock

   Antonyms:
   salute, welcome, respect, admire, compliment, mode

   Synonyms:
   jeer, ridicule, flout, mimic, insult, ape, deride, deceive, imitate

Matched Categories

1. • Imitate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. mockadjective

   the act of mocking or ridiculing

   "they made a mock of him"

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine

2. mockverb

   constituting a copy or imitation of something

   "boys in mock battle"

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt

3. mock, bemockverb

   treat with contempt

   "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles"

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt

   Synonyms:
   bemock

4. mockverb

   imitate with mockery and derision

   "The children mocked their handicapped classmate"

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine

   Synonyms:
   bemock

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1. mockadjective

   Synonyms:
   sham, spurious, counterfieit, imitational

2. mockverb

   Synonyms:
   mimic, flout, taunt, imitate, gibe, ridicule, jeer, schout, balk, disappoint, delude, tantalize, elude, defy, disregard, ape, mimic, personate

How to use mock in a sentence?

1. New York:

   If you want to mock my getting sick, you can, you want me to be the story, you want my brother to be the story because you cant handle Trump. The numbers were supposed to disappear!

2. Jack Santino:

   They are people who were kind of ridiculous and there is a kind of 'Emperor Has No Clothes' element, at Halloween, people just mock them to say, 'We all know you're ridiculous. You’re not fooling anyone.'.

3. Kevin Healy:

   These are mock blood vessels, they are similar to blood vessels. The fluid that we are interested in comes across this tissue and then it bathes it with the drug, we give it caffeine, heart-on-a-chip beats and accelerates its heart rate. We give it adrenaline, it accelerates its heart rate.

4. Adam Schiff:

   I discovered something very significant by mocking the President and that is for a man who loves to mock others, he does not like to be mocked. As it turns out, he's got a pretty thin skin. Who would have thought it ? never mind that I said I wasn't using his words before I said, and I wasn't using his words after I said it, and I said I was making a parody of his words --' It's an outrage ! He mocked the President, that Schiff ! Terrible !'.

5. Alexis Bloomer:

   We don’t respect our elders —we don’t even respect our country, we’re stepping on our flag instead of stepping up to volunteer. And we mock the men and women that are fighting for us, but we praise the people that are fighting each other, guys.

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