| Main Entry: | imitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simulation, substitution |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, apery, aping, carbon copy, clone, copy, counterfeit, counterfeiting, counterpart, ditto*, dupe*, duplicate, duplication, echoing, ersatz*, fake, forgery, image, impersonation, impression, likeness, match, matching, mime, mimesis, mimicry, mirroring, mockery, parallel, paralleling, paraphrasing, parody, parroting, patterning, phony, picture, reflection, replica, representing, reproduction, resemblance, ringer, semblance, sham*, simulacrum, takeoff, transcription, travesty |
Antonyms: |
difference, opposite, original, reverse |
| Main Entry: | imitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Imitation. |
| Category: | 3. PARTIAL RELATION |
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-nouns
imitation; copying; transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint., mockery, mimiery; simulation, impersonation, personation; representation; semblance; copy; assimilation., paraphrase, parody., plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit (falsehood); celluloid., imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate.
-verbs
imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel., mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act (drama); represent. [more]; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, burlesque., follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate.
-adjectives
imitated; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on., paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking.
-adverbs
literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot; exactly, precisely.
-phrases
like master like man; "like -- but oh! how different!" [Wordsworth]; " genius borrows nobly " [Emerson]; pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks " [A. Coles]; "quotation confesses inferiority" [Emerson].
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Antonyms: |
nonimitation |
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| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
Synonyms: |
assuming, characterization, depiction, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, enactment, feigning, hamming, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, pantomime, performance, play acting, playing, portrayal, portraying, posing, posturing, pretending, pretense, putting, rendition, seeming, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatre, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | affectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretended behavior to make an impression |
Synonyms: |
air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front, front, going Hollywood, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, sham*, show, showing off, simulation |
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naturalness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation meant to communicate or appeal to senses or mind |
Synonyms: |
abstraction, carving, description, design, illustration, imitation, modeling, molding, painting, pictorialization, portrayal, representation, sculpting, shaping, simulation, sketching, symbolization |
Antonyms: |
science |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, imitation, made-up, make-believe, phony, pretended, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious |
Antonyms: |
genuine, natural, real |
| Main Entry: | bogus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
Synonyms: |
artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, not what it is cracked up to be, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious |
Antonyms: |
authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | caricature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated description in writing, drawing |
Synonyms: |
burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation, lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche, put-on, ridicule, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff, travesty |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, simulated |
Synonyms: |
Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, put-on, queer, sham, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
Antonyms: |
genuine, real, true |