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imitating - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | imitating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | copying |
| Synonyms: | following, matching, echoing, emulating, paralleling, reflecting |
| Main Entry: | imitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be; do an impression of |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affect, ape, assume, borrow, burlesque, carbon*, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow suit*, forge, impersonate, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, parallel, parody, pretend, put on*, reflect, repeat, reproduce, resemble, sham, simulate, spoof, take off*, travesty, act like, be like, do like, do likewise, follow in footsteps, look like, model after, pattern after, personate, play a part, reduplicate, replicate, send up* |
| Notes: | emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks |
| Antonyms: | clash, differ, oppose, reverse, be original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
| Synonyms: | assuming, depiction, enactment, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, performance, portrayal, pretending, pretense, rendition, seeming, theatre, characterization, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, feigning, hamming, pantomime, play acting, playing, portraying, posing, posturing, putting, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | forgery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counterfeiting; counterfeit item |
| Synonyms: | bogus*, carbon*, carbon copy, cheat, copy, fabrication, fake, imitating, imitation, imposition, imposture, phony, pseudo, sham*, twin, coining, faking, falsification, fraudulence, lookalike, workalike |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | repeating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | recurrent |
| Synonyms: | ceaseless, continuous, imitating, perpetual, repetitious, copying, duplicating, echoing, reduplicating, reiterative, reproducing |
| Main Entry: | adopt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choose or take something as one's own |
| Synonyms: | accept, adapt, affiliate, affirm, appropriate, approve, assent, assume, borrow, embrace, endorse, espouse, follow, imitate, maintain, mimic, opt, ratify, seize, select, support, take on, take up, tap, use, utilize, go down the line, go in for, take over |
| Antonyms: | disown, reject, repudiate, repulse, leave alone |
| Main Entry: | ape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mimic |
| Synonyms: | affect, caricature, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do*, echo, emulate, imitate, impersonate, mirror, mock, parody, parrot, take off*, travesty, do like, go like, make like |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, adopt, affect, bluff, counterfeit, fake, feign, imitate, impersonate, mimic, pretend, put on, simulate |
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adopt from another source; appropriate |
| Synonyms: | acquire, adopt, assume, copy, filch, imitate, make one's own, obtain, pilfer, pirate, plagiarize, simulate, steal, take, use, usurp |
| Antonyms: | give, return |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | duplicate |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off*, limn, manifold, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, picture, plagiarize, portray, reflect, repeat, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, trace, transcribe, mimeo, photostat, reduplicate, replicate, stat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make deceitful imitation |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, imitate, impersonate, knock off*, mimic, mint, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, act like, circulate bad money, do like, go like, make like, make money, mimeo, phony up, stat |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a copy; repeat |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, double, dupe, echo, fake, imitate, knock off*, manifold, mirror, multiply, phony, photocopy, pirate*, redo, redouble, reproduce, rework, trace, act like, do a takeoff, do again, do like, dualize, go like, make like, make replica, make twofold, mimeo, photostat, reduplicate, remake, replicate, repro, stat, take off as |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | echo |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat, copy |
| Synonyms: | ape, ditto*, imitate, impersonate, mimic, mirror, parallel, parrot, react, recall, redouble, reflect, reiterate, reproduce, resemble, resound, respond, reverberate, ring, second, vibrate, do like, go like, make like, rubber-stamp |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | copy the actions of |
| Synonyms: | challenge, compete, contend, ditto*, do*, follow, follow suit*, imitate, mimic, mirror, rival, take after*, compete with, contend with, do like, follow in footsteps, follow the example of, go like, make like, outvie, pattern after, rivalize, vie with |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enlighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain thoroughly; make aware |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, advise, apprise, brief, catechize, civilize, convert, counsel, direct, disclose, divulge, edify, educate, elucidate, guide, illuminate, illumine, imitate, improve, inculcate, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, persuade, preach, reveal, save, school, teach, tell, train, update, uplift, cause to understand, give faith, give the lowdown, give the word, illume, inspirit, let in on, open up, put on to |
| Antonyms: | bewilder, confound, confuse, delude, mislead, obscure, puzzle, be vague |
| Main Entry: | feign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff*, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, fabricate, fake, forge, imagine, imitate, invent, play, play possum*, put on, sham*, simulate, stonewall*, do a bit, four-flush, give appearance of, make show of, phony up, put on act, put up a front |
| Antonyms: | be true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | follow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act in accordance with |
| Synonyms: | abide by, accord, adopt, attend, comply, conform, copy, cultivate, emulate, follow suit, harmonize, heed, imitate, keep, match, mimic, mind, mirror, note, obey, observe, reflect, regard, serve, string along*, support, take after, watch, adhere to, be consistent with, be devoted to, be guided by, be in keeping, be interested in, do like, give allegiance to, hold fast, keep abreast of, keep an eye on, live up to, model on, pattern oneself upon, take as an example |
| Antonyms: | avoid, disregard, scorn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | coin, copy, design, duplicate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fashion, feign, frame, imitate, invent, make, pirate*, produce, reproduce, scratch, trace, transcribe, phony up, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, exemplify |
| Synonyms: | clarify, clear, clear up, delineate, depict, disclose, elucidate, embody, emphasize, epitomize, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, get across*, get over*, highlight, illuminate, imitate, instance, interpret, lay out*, limelight*, manifest, mark, mirror, personify, picture, portray, proclaim, represent, reveal, show, show and tell*, spotlight*, symbolize, typify, vivify, allegorize, bring home, draw a picture, emblematize, make clear, make plain, ostend, point up* |
| Antonyms: | hide, obscure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impersonate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be another |
| Synonyms: | act, ape, ditto*, do, enact, fake, imitate, mimic, mirror, perform, play, portray, put on an act*, represent, act a part, act like, act out, assume character, do an impression of, double as, dress as, make like, masquerade as, pass oneself off as, personate, play a role, playact, pose as, take the part of |
| Antonyms: | differ, oppose, reverse, be original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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