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View synonyms for mock-heroic

mock-heroic

[ mok-hi-roh-ik ]

adjective

  1. imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action:

    mock-heroic dignity.

  2. of or relating to a form of satire in which trivial subjects, characters, and events are treated in the ceremonious manner and with the elevated language and elaborate devices characteristic of the heroic style.


noun

  1. an imitation or burlesque of something heroic.

mock-heroic

adjective

  1. (of a literary work, esp a poem) imitating the style of heroic poetry in order to satirize an unheroic subject, as in Pope's The Rape of the Lock
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. burlesque imitation of the heroic style or of a single work in this style
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • mock-he·roi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mock-heroic1

First recorded in 1705–15
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Example Sentences

Even Joe smiled once or twice when Boone, in a mock heroic manner alluded to his exploits among the wolves.

To amuse himself, when professor of rhetoric, he wrote his mock-heroic of the battle of the frogs and mice, "Batrachomyomachia."

Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low.

Then he went on to speak in a mock-heroic style of the rights of women.

The two latter personages have been already damaged by the mock heroic description of them in the introduction.

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