mock, v. 1. ridicule, jeer, make fun of, fleer, laugh at, guy, make [s.o.] the butt of a joke, Australian. chiack; tease, kid, rib, rally, taunt, rag, gibe, twit, banter, poke fun at, make sport of, spoof, Inf. roast, SI. razz; sneer at, deride, scout, flout, knock, put down, make snide remarks about, cry down, Scot. and North Eng. geek; defy, challenge, spurn, flout, scoff at, laugh in the face of, pooh-pooh, Inf. thumb one's nose at, U.S. give the Bronx cheer or raspberry to; scorn, curl one's lips at, disdain, contemn, insult, run down, assail, abuse.
2. mimic, ape, monkey, parrot, echo, imitate, impersonate, mime, SI. make like; lampoon, satirize, parody, pasquinade, burlesque, caricature, travesty, do a take-off on.
3. simulate, copy, copy-cat, duplicate, clone; counterfeit, forge, fabricate, fake; sham, feign, pretend, make believe, playact, act like, personate, play the role, assume, put on, take on, affect; dissemble, mislead, play a hoax on, fake out, do a number on, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, make a fool of.
-adj. 4. fake, sham, flash, counterfeit, forged, faked, fraudulent, spurious, meretricious, pinchbeck, bastardly, Inf. phony, bogus, Australian, bunyip; mimic, mimical, mimetic, imitation, imitative, near, simulated, synthetic, artificial, plastic, ersatz, pseudo, so-called, SI. hokey; pretend, make-believe, play, (of money) paper,
mocker, n. 1. ridiculer, jeerer, giber, taunter; teaser, banterer, spoofer, SI. kidder; sneerer, derider, flouter, scoffer, spurner; scorner, contemner, insulter, assailer, abuser.
2. mimic, ape, monkey, parrot, echo, imitator, mime, impersonator; lampooner, lampoonist, pasquinades burlesquer, caricaturist, satirist, parodist.
3. copier, copyist, simulator, epigone, Inf. copycat; counterfeiter, forger, fabricator, faker; fake, mountebank, charlatan, quack, empiric,//?/, phony, Australian. bunyip; impostor, deceiver, feigner, pretender.
mockery, n. 1. ridicule, jeering, taunting; spoofery, funning, kidding, teasing, banter, badinage, persiflage; derision, scoffing, scorn, disdain, contempt, disrespect.
2. jeer, gibe, fleer, gaunt, raillery, contumely, nasty remark, sarcasm, Inf. roast; poke, dig, cut, rub, chaff, barb, thrust, quip, wisecrack, skit; boo, hiss, hoot, catcall, cry, U.S. raspberry, U.S. Bronx cheer, SI. razz, SI. bird.
3. mimicry, mimicking, apery, monkeying, imitation, impersonation, Rhet. mimesis; spoof, take-off, burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, pasquil, satire, caricature; travesty, sham, farce, mummery, insult, misrepresentation, bastardization, corruption, abuse, miscarriage.
4. joke, laugh, ridiculosity, the most ridiculous or ludicrous thing one has ever seen; absurdity, inanity, preposterous idea, dumb or stupid thing.
mocking, adj. ridiculing, jeering, fleering, taunting, gibing; spoofing, teasing, kidding, ribbing, bantering, SI. razzing; derisive, derisory, sneering, flouting, scoffing, pooh-poohing, thumbing one's nose, disrespectful, irreverent, impudent; scornful, disdainful, contemptuous, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical; snide, cutting, biting, nasty, ugly, insulting, contumelious, assailing, abusive, scurrilous.
mode1, n. 1. manner, method, way, wise; system,
approach, technique, procedure; process, methodology, standard operating procedure, Inf. SOP, Latin, modus operandi.
2. form, disposition, tenor, appearance, guise, aspect; type, kind, sort; form, mold, shape, configuration.
mode2, n. style, fashion, vogue, look, trend, rage,