mock-heroic Syllabification: (mock-he·ro·ic)Definition of mock-heroic adjective (of a literary work or its style) imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject. noun (often as mock heroics) a burlesque imitation of the heroic character or literary style. mock-heroic in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of mock-heroic in the British & World English dictionary