Definition for Scoffing:

• Treating with reproachful language.

Synonyms for Scoffing:

• adj.

  •contemptuous (adjective)
  • jeering,
  • flippant,
  • disdainful,
  • derisive,
  • sarcastic,
  • deprecative,
  • antipathetic,
  • abusive,
  • sardonic,
  • contemptuous,
  • satirical,
  • Ridiculing,
  • scornful,
  • disparaging,
  • insulting.
  •cynical (adjective)
  • mis anthropical,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • un believing,
  • more misanthropical,
  • mis-anthropical,
  • mis anthropic,
  • un-believing,
  • most misanthropical.
  •derisive (adjective)
  • most out of line,
  • most taunting,
  • more out-of-line,
  • more out of line,
  • flippest,
  • galliest,
  • gallier,
  • smartalecky,
  • more taunting,
  • most out-of-line.
  •sarcastic (adjective)
  • contumelious,
  • Snarling,
  • backhanded,
  • needling,
  • austere,
  • biting,
  • bitter,
  • irascible,
  • corrosive,
  • Chaffing,
  • caustic,
  • evil,
  • acerb,
  • arrogant,
  • hostile,
  • disrespectful,
  • offensive,
  • Twitting,
  • salty,
  • brusque,
  • saucy,
  • smart-alecky,
  • acrimonious,
  • sharp,
  • captious,
  • mean,
  • weisenheiming,
  • severe,
  • scurrilous,
  • cutting,
  • disillusioned,
  • acerbic,
  • cussed,
  • acid,
  • trenchant,
  • ornery,
  • scorching,
  • carping.
  •skeptical (adjective)
  • SHOW-ME,
  • unconvinced,
  • freethinking,
  • aporetic,
  • mistrustful.

• n.

  •
  • respect,
  • laughter.
  •blasphemy (noun)
  • in-dignities,
  • in dignities,
  • scoffings,
  • in dignity,
  • cussings,
  • impiousnesses,
  • in-dignity.
  •cynicism (noun)
  • cynicism.
  •derision (noun)
  • backhanded compliments,
  • parting shots,
  • object ridicule,
  • pilgarlics.
  •gibe (noun)
  • rankout,
  • rank-outs,
  • rank outs,
  • rankouts,
  • cutting remarks.
  •ridicule (noun)
  • gibe.
  •sarcasm (noun)
  • lampoonings,
  • causticnesses.
  •scoff (noun)
  • scoff.
  •scorn (noun)
  • dis-regard,
  • dis regard,
  • despisements,
  • de-spites,
  • dis-regards,
  • de-spite,
  • de spite,
  • contemptuousnesses,
  • jeerings,
  • de spites,
  • scornfulnesses,
  • teasings,
  • tauntings,
  • despites,
  • dis regards.
  •trenchancy (noun)
  • trenchancy.

• v.

  •ridiculing (verb)
  • humiliating,
  • jesting,
  • deprecating,
  • razzing,
  • taunting,
  • roasting,
  • Deriding,
  • Mimicking,
  • Caricaturing,
  • Quipping,
  • Ragging,
  • joking,
  • Burlesquing,
  • Gibing,
  • Kidding,
  • denigrating,
  • riding,
  • sneering.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • satiric.
  •
  • rude,
  • reverence.

Antonyms for Scoffing:

• adj.

  • sarcastic
    agreeable, complimentary, kind, honest, mild, nice, sweet, good, calm, pleasant, bland.

Scoffing Sentence Examples:

• Eumaeus scoffing then with keen disdain: There pass thy pleasing night, O gentle swain!

• It was shown to the scoffing Martin as visible proof that the burglar had been there.

Homophones for Scoffing:

• sawbones, sapiens, sponge cake, shopping, sponge, spang, spiffing, sixpence, saponaceous, spinus, spaying, sweeping, sobbing, spinacia, spank, spunk, Soapiness, spinose, Spanish Oak, spheniscus, sevens, spinous, seven seas, Sophonias, spinning, suaveness, sea pink, spinach, sphinx, soupiness, swabbing, submucosa, spunky, scavenge, suspense, safeness, Spininess, spying, subbing, sopping, shaping, shipping, supping, shebang, saving, sex offense, shabbiness, sapience, savings, seeping, spanish, shaving, spinoza, successiveness, spongy, sac fungus, sycophancy, spumous.