Word Meanings - MOCKERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals

Additional info about word: MOCKERY

1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope. 2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. Spenser. 3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. 2 Macc. viii. 17.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOCKERY)

• Banter
• Badinage
• chaff
• mockery
• derision
• ridicule
• irony
• jeering
• raillery
• Derision
• Scorn
• contempt
• sarcasm
• contumely
• disrespect
• Illusion
• Dream
• deception
• delusion
• hallucination
• phantasm
• vision
• myth
• false show
• error
• fallacy
• Ridicule
• banter
• burlesque
• caricature
• satire
• jeer
• sneer
• cachinnation
• Scurrility
• Buffoonery
• abuse

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MOCKERY)

• Honor
• regard
• esteem
• venerate
• respect
• applaud
• salute

Related words: (words related to MOCKERY)

• SARCASM
  A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• CONTUMELY
  Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely.
• BADINAGE
  Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
• PHANTASM
  1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.