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/icons/point.icon RIDICULE, DERIDE, MOCK, TAUNT mean to make an object of laughter of.
RIDICULE implies a deliberate often malicious belittling.
e.g. consistently ridiculed everything she said
DERIDE suggests contemptuous and often bitter ridicule.
e.g. derided their efforts to start their own business
MOCK implies scorn often ironically expressed as by mimicry or sham deference.
e.g. youngsters began to mock the helpless wino
TAUNT suggests jeeringly provoking insult or challenge.
e.g. hometown fans taunted the visiting team
/icons/point.icon COPY, IMITATE, MIMIC, APE, MOCK mean to make something so that it resembles an existing thing.
COPY suggests duplicating an original as nearly as possible.
e.g. copied the painting and sold the fake as an original
IMITATE suggests following a model or a pattern but may allow for some variation.
e.g. imitate a poet's style
MIMIC implies a close copying (as of voice or mannerism) often for fun, ridicule, or lifelike imitation.
e.g. pupils mimicking their teacher
APE may suggest presumptuous, slavish, or inept imitating of a superior original.
e.g. American fashion designers aped their European colleagues
MOCK usually implies imitation with derision.
e.g. mocking a vain man's pompous manner
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verb with object
tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner:
｟ややかたく｠ (冷たい言葉･相手のまねで)…をあざける, ばかにする, あざ笑う; ｟書｠ 〖直接話法〗…と言ってあざ笑う
e.g. he mocks them as Washington insiders.
make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible:
｟かたく｠ 〈物･事が〉〈努力など〉を徒労に終わらせる, 台なしにする
e.g. at Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretense of peace.
mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously.
…をまねる, まねしてからかう
adjective attributive
not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive:
偽の, まがいものの(↔ real)
e.g. a mock-Georgian red brick house
e.g. Jim threw up his hands in mock horror.
(of an examination, battle, etc.) arranged for training or practice, or performed as a demonstration:
模擬の
e.g. Dukakis will have a mock debate with Barnett.
noun
dated an object of derision:
｟やや古｠ あざけりの的, 笑いもの.
e.g. he has become the mock of all his contemporaries.
DERIVATIVES
mockable adjective
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Old French mocquer ‘deride’.