SPOOFS Synonyms: 142 Similar and Opposite Words

spoofs 1 of 2

noun

plural of spoof

as in parodies

a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing

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verb

present tense third-person singular of spoof

as in imitates

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of spoofed overly competitive parents in a mockumentary about tryouts for a national T-ball team

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as in tricks

to cause to believe what is untrue the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter

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Noun

The film draws on 1980s supernatural comedies, including Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and The Addams Family, alongside classic monster movies and horror spoofs. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 Blanchett cofounded the nonprofit Human Consent Foundation to help people register how AI models can — or cannot — scrape their likenesses in an effort to combat such spoofs. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 It's been a great couple of years for horror movies, which means that the time was right for the return of horror spoofs. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026 The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026 Based on the Apple TV series, the fizzy throwback spoofs Golden Age musicals, and follows an on-the-rocks couple who are trapped in a town where people sing and dance incessantly. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 June 2026 The success of more straightforward spoofs such as Schaffer’s The Naked Gun last year is also reassuring; that film was a classic joke-a-minute throwback that largely worked (for both viewers and critics), more in line with the sort of fare that the Lonely Island made early on. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026 Way better than dusty game show and dinner party spoofs. — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Jan. 2026 What’s Upstairs at the Downstairs is always a patchwork of mild satire, blatant spoofs, witty music, local jokes. — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025

Verb

My favorite summer TikTok trend is one that spoofs Netflix true crime dramas by applying their narrative formula to mundane, everyday situations. — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 31 July 2026 Otherwise, the software is fast and fluid, and Google apps can run here as long as the user installs MicroG first (an open-source software that spoofs Google Mobile Services). — Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The actor is teaming up with the retailer for a new campaign that playfully spoofs his Devil Wears Prada character, Nigel. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026 One of the Anthropic ads — a version of which will air on NBC’s Super Bowl LX telecast — spoofs an OpenAI commercial that depicts a young man doing pull-ups in a park and uses ChatGPT to create a workout plan. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 Feb. 2026 This sketch essentially spoofs his brand partnerships and bland style. — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025 Screamboat, a horror movie that spoofs the character, debuted earlier this year. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoofs

Noun

The five stars teased the project with parodies of their characters in a promo video.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
The name of the collection parodies the seriousness of the museum, even as the collection itself is the kind of thing that has traditionally gotten scant attention within actual institutions.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of parodies

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Constantin Brâncuși’s marble-and-limestone sculpture L’oiseau (1923/1947), for example, commands the space, while Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2022 photograph tree filling window imitates an open window in a closed space.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Over the weekend, movie-theater chain AMC Entertainment accused Robinhood of creating an unauthorized market that imitates trading in AMC shares through its overseas platform without the company’s approval.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of imitates

Verb

Scams involving direct payments A scammer tricks you into authorizing a wire transfer, sending money through a payment app or purchasing gift cards.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
While Bela is using the bathroom, Other Mommy approaches her and tricks her into agreeing that their family would be better if Frank wasn’t around.

— William Earl, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of tricks

Verb

We are presented with a few potentially hissable villains, including an attorney for the state (Christian Rubeck) who mocks the Gheorghius’ faith and a frostily inflexible social worker, Gunda (Ellen Dorrit Petersen).

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is designed as an action flick as well as a portrait of a family dealing with tragedy and an insider’s look at an insular community that mocks harmful stereotypes without perpetrating them.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of mocks

Verb

Here, the dream carries the true emotional weight, and the waking world is what deceives us.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2026
The complaint also claims that the image deceives customers into thinking Lipa has endorsed the product and dilutes her brand identity.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 11 May 2026

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