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| Main Entry: | spoof |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick, mockery |
| Synonyms: | bluff, burlesque, caricature, cheat, deceit, deception, fake, game, hoax, imposture, jest, joke, lampoon, parody, phony, prank, quip, satire, sell, sham, travesty, trickery, wisecrack, bon mot, flim-flam*, put-on, send-up, take-off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | burlesque |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bawdy show; vaudeville |
| Synonyms: | burly*, caricature, farce, lampoon, mock, mockery, parody, pastiche, peep show, satire, spoof, strip, takeoff, travesty, vaudeville, lampoonery, revue, send-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool someone |
| Synonyms: | baffle, bamboozle*, beguile, betray, catch, cheat, chicane, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dust*, flimflam*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, hornswoggle, jerk around, kid, mislead, outwit, overreach, pull one's leg, pull something, rip off*, rook*, rope in, shaft, spoof, swindle, trick, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imposter, copy |
| Synonyms: | actor, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick, bluffer, faker, four-flusher, gold brick, junque, put-on |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
| Antonyms: | original, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act*, sham, simulate, spoof |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trick, mislead |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, bluff, cheat, con, deceive, delude, diddle, dupe, flimflam*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, kid, make believe, outfox, pretend, put on, scam*, snow*, spoof*, take in*, trifle, chicane, fake out, fox*, jive*, juke, lead on, play a trick on, play-act, put one over on, suck in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cock-and-bull story*, con*, con game*, crock*, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, fib, flimflam*, fraud, gimmick, gyp*, humbug*, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job*, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper*, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, hooey, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be; do an impression of |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affect, ape, assume, borrow, burlesque, carbon*, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow suit*, forge, impersonate, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, parallel, parody, pretend, put on*, reflect, repeat, reproduce, resemble, sham, simulate, spoof, take off*, travesty, act like, be like, do like, do likewise, follow in footsteps, look like, model after, pattern after, personate, play a part, reduplicate, replicate, send up* |
| Antonyms: | clash, differ, oppose, reverse, be original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imposture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fraud, trick |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheat, con, copy, counterfeit, deceit, deception, fabrication, fake, feint, fiddle, flimflam*, forgery, gambit, hoax, hocus-pocus*, illusion, imitation, impersonation, imposition, make-believe, maneuver, masquerade, phony, ploy, pretense, pretension, quackery, ruse, sell*, sham, sleight, spoof, stratagem, swindle, wile, put-on |
| Antonyms: | honesty, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joke |
| Synonyms: | banter, crack, fun, funny, gag, game, hoax, jolly, laugh, one-liner*, play, pleasantry, prank, quip, rib, ridicule, sally, spoof, sport, wisecrack, witticism, bon mot, jive, rib-tickler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | joke |
| Synonyms: | banter, chaff, deride, flout, fool, fun*, gibe*, gird*, jeer, jolly*, josh*, kid, mock, needle*, put on, quip, rag*, razz*, rib*, roast*, scoff, sneer, spoof, tease, jive* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | joke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kid, tease |
| Synonyms: | banter, chaff, deceive, deride, fool, frolic, fun, gambol, horse around*, jape, jest, jive*, jolly, josh, kid around, laugh, make merry, mock, needle, play, play the clown, play tricks, poke fun, pull one's leg, pun, put on, quip, rag, revel, rib, ridicule, roast*, spoof, sport, taunt, trick, wisecrack* |
| Antonyms: | be serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool, ridicule |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, banter, beguile, bother, cozen, delude, dupe, flimflam*, fun*, gull, hoax, hoodwink, jape, jest, joke, jolly, josh, make fun of, mock, pretend, rag*, razz, rib, roast, spoof, tease, trick, make sport of |
| Antonyms: | be serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practical joke; frivolity |
| Synonyms: | antic, caper, caprice, escapade, fancy, fooling, frolic, gag, gambol, high jinks, horseplay*, hotfoot*, lark, levity, lightness, play, rib*, rollick, roughhouse, shenanigans, shine*, spoof, sport, tomfoolery, trick, whim, monkeyshines, put-on, roughhousing, rowdiness, skylarking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | witty communication, often verbal |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, crack, drollery, gag, gibe, insult, jeer, jest, joke, mockery, offense, pleasantry, pun, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, satire, spoof, wisecrack, witticism, bon mot |
| Main Entry: | satire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridicule intended to expose truth |
| Synonyms: | banter, burlesque, caricature, irony, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, persiflage, raillery, sarcasm, skit, spoof, takeoff*, travesty, wit, witticism, causticity, chaffing, lampoonery, play-on, put-on, send-up, squib* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satirize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ridicule |
| Synonyms: | banter, burlesque, caricature, caricaturize, cartoon, deride, haze, humiliate, jape, jeer, jive, josh, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a fool of, make fun of, mimic, mock, needle, pan*, parody, poke fun at, pull one's leg, raz, rib*, ride*, roast*, spoof |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax, trick |
| Synonyms: | burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, false front, farce, feint, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, imitation, impostor, imposture, mock, mockery, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, sell, smoke*, snow job*, spoof, travesty, whitewash, fakery, hypocriticalness, jive*, pharisaism, phoniness, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | skit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sketch |
| Synonyms: | act, parody, performance, play, satire, spoof, takeoff |
| Main Entry: | tease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aggravate, provoke |
| Synonyms: | annoy, badger, bait, banter, bedevil, beleaguer, bother, chaff, devil, disturb, dog*, gibe, gnaw, goad, harass, harry, hector, importune, josh, mock, needle*, nudge, pester, pick on*, plague, put down*, rag*, rally, razz*, rib*, ride, ridicule, roast*, slam, snap, sound, spoof, tantalize, taunt, torment, vex, worry, be at, give a hard time, jive*, lead on, send up*, swipe at |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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