Mock
[mɒk] or [mɑk]
Definition
(noun.) the act of mocking or ridiculing; 'they made a mock of him'.
(verb.) treat with contempt; 'The new constitution mocks all democratic principles'.
(verb.) imitate with mockery and derision; 'The children mocked their handicapped classmate'.
(adj.) constituting a copy or imitation of something; 'boys in mock battle' .
Checked by Lanny--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
(v. t.) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
(v. t.) To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
(v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
(n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
(n.) Imitation; mimicry.
(a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
Checker: Marie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Ape, mimic, imitate, counterfeit, take off.[2]. Deride, ridicule, jibe, jeer, taunt, scout, chaff, laugh at, make game of, make fun of, treat with contempt, treat with scorn, make a butt of, make merry with, POKE FUN AT.[3]. Illude, deceive, disappoint, balk, cheat, dupe.
a. False, counterfeit, pretended, feigned, assumed, sham, spurious, clap-trap, not real, make-believe.
Edited by Jeffrey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Jeer, ridicule, flout, mimic, insult, ape, deride, deceive, imitate
ANT:Salute, welcome, respect, admire, compliment, Mode,[See METHOD]
Checked by Bernie
Definition
v.t. to laugh at: to make sport of: to mimic in ridicule: to disappoint the hopes of: to deceive: to set at nought defy.—n. ridicule a sneer: a bringing into ridicule.—adj. imitating reality but not real: false.—adj. Mock′able exposed to or deserving derision.—ns. Mock′er; Mock′ery Mock′ing derision: ridicule: subject of laughter or sport: fruitless labour: vain imitation: false show.—adj. Mock′-herō′ic mocking the heroic style or the actions or characters of heroes.—n. Mock′ing-bird a bird of North America of the thrush family which mocks or imitates the notes of birds and other sounds.—adv. Mock′ingly.—n. Mock′-or′ange an ornamental shrub of the saxifrage family—also Syringa. Mock sun (see Parhelion); Mock turtle soup a dish made of calf's head veal &c. seasoned in imitation of turtle soup.
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Examples
- Helena, remarked Maurice, with mock solemnity, taking her hands, look at me carefully. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- These machines still remained in a dusty storeroom to mock him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You ought to be thankful, said Shirley, and not mock me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You mock me to say that now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But to mock such a serious man as Don Guillermo is beyond all right. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He feared us so much--and with reason--that he caused himself to be represented as dead, and had a grand mock-funeral. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In a little while we hear stories of an Omayyad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mocked at the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, and did not pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was silent: I thought he mocked me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Her fibres had been softened by suffering, and the sudden glimpse into his mocked and broken life disarmed her contempt for his weakness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He mocked the youth, with an acid ridicule, that made Leitner red in the face and impotent with resentment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Already she mocked at herself for her dreaMs. They could be fulfilled easily enough. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The social tensions of the time mocked that comparison with Camillus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That cannot be borne, she mocked him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Winifred did not notice human beings unless they were like herself, playful and slightly mocking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And then, from unseen lips, a cruel and mocking peal of laughter rang through the desolate place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her impulse was to repel him violently, break from this spell of mocking brutishness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun, mocking and objective, watched and registered everything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And her face, too, is visible--her countenance careless and pensive, and musing and mirthful, and mocking and tender. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Checker: Vernon