different between mocking vs derisively

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?k??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??
• Hyphenation: mock?ing

Verb

mocking

1. Present participle and gerund of mock.

Noun

mocking (countable and uncountable, plural mockings)

1. mockery

Adjective

mocking (comparative more mocking, superlative most mocking)

1. derisive or contemptuous
2. teasing or taunting

Translations

Derived terms

• mockingbird
• mocking thrush
• mocking wren

English

Etymology

derisive +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /d???a?s?vli/, /d????z?vli/
• Hyphenation: de?ri?sive?ly

Adverb

derisively (comparative more derisively, superlative most derisively)

1. In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly.
   • 1789, George Campbell, The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek. With Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. [...] In Two Volumes, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, ?OCLC; republished as “Art. IX. Dr. Campbell on the Four Gospels. [Article concluded.] Dissertation XII.”, in The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume II, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T. Becket, in Pall Mall, August 1790, ?OCLC, page 411:

     As ?ometimes, with us, a que?tion is put deri?ively, in the form of an a??ertion, when the propo?er conceives, as ?eems to have happened here, ?ome ab?urdity in the thing, I thought it be?t, after the example of ?o many Lat[in] interpreters, to adopt the equivocal, or rather the oblique, form of the original expre??ion. The ambiguity is not real, but apparent.

Synonyms

• demeaningly
• mockingly

Related terms

• derision
• derisive
• derisiveness

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