| Main Entry: | impersonate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be another |
Synonyms: |
act, act a part, act like, act out, ape, assume character, ditto*, do, do an impression of, double as, dress as, enact, fake, imitate, make like, masquerade as, mimic, mirror, pass oneself off as, perform, personate, play, play a role, playact, portray, pose as, put on an act, represent, take the part of |
Antonyms: |
be original, differ, oppose, reverse |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain by playing a role |
Synonyms: |
be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, feign, go on, go over, ham it up, ham, impersonate, lay an egg, make debut, mime, mimic, mug, parody, perform, personate, personify, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, portray, pretend, put it over, rehearse, represent, say one's piece, simulate, star, stooge, strut*, take part, tread the boards |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | ape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mimic |
Synonyms: |
affect, caricature, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do*, echo, emulate, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mirror, mock, parody, parrot, take off, travesty |
| 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: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make deceitful imitation |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, circulate bad money, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, do like, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, go like, imitate, impersonate, knock off, make like, make money, mimeo, mimic, mint, phony up, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, stat |
Antonyms: |
be honest |
| Main Entry: | do |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, behave |
Synonyms: |
acquit oneself, appear, bear, carry, come on like, comport, conduct, demean, deport, discourse, enact, fare, get along, get by, give, go on, impersonate, make out, manage, muddle through, operate, perform, personate, play, playact, portray, present, produce, put on*, quit, render the role, seem, stagger along |
| Main Entry: | echo |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat, copy |
Synonyms: |
ape, ditto*, do like, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mimic, mirror, parallel, parrot, react, recall, redouble, reflect, reiterate, reproduce, resemble, resound, respond, reverberate, ring, rubber-stamp, second, vibrate |
| Main Entry: | imitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be; do an impression of |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, be like, borrow, burlesque, carbon, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do likewise, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, forge, impersonate, look like, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, model after, parallel, parody, pattern after, personate, play a part, pretend, put on*, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, reproduce, resemble, send up, sham, simulate, spoof, take off, travesty |
Antonyms: |
be original, clash, differ, oppose, reverse |
| Main Entry: | masquerade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise |
Synonyms: |
attitudinize, dissemble, dissimulate, frolic, impersonate, mask, pass as, pass for, pass off, pose, posture, pretend, revel |
Antonyms: |
reveal, unmask |
| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate, mock |
Synonyms: |
act, ape, burlesque, caricature, copy, copycat, ditto*, do, do like, echo, enact, fake, go like, impersonate, look like, make believe, make fun of, make like, mime, mirror, pantomime, parody, parrot, perform, personate, play, resemble, ridicule, sham, simulate, take off, travesty |