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| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who imitates |
| Synonyms: | actor, comedian, copycat, imitator, mime, parrot, performer, player, thespian, caricaturist, impersonator, impressionist, mummer, parodist, playactor, trouper |
| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate, mock |
| Synonyms: | act, ape, burlesque, caricature, copy, copycat, ditto*, do, echo, enact, fake, impersonate, make believe, make fun of, mime, mirror, parody, parrot, perform, play, resemble, ridicule, sham, simulate, take off*, travesty, do like, go like, look like, make like, pantomime, personate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | actor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who performs, entertains by role-playing |
| Synonyms: | amateur, artist, bit player, character, clown, comedian, entertainer, extra, foil, ham*, idol, lead, mime, mimic, performer, player, stand-in, star, stooge*, thespian, understudy, villain, barnstormer, hambone, headliner, impersonator, ingénue, pantomimist, play-actor, soubrette, straight person, thesp, trouper, ventriloquist, walk-on |
| Antonyms: | audience, fan |
* = 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: | 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 |
| Notes: | emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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* |
| Antonyms: | clash, differ, oppose, reverse, be original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | artful, copied, copycat, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, following, forged, mimic, mock, parrot*, pseudo*, reflective, secondhand, sham*, copying, echoic, emulative, emulous, mimetic, mimicking, onomatopoeic, plagiarized, put-on, reflecting, simulant |
| Antonyms: | different, genuine, original |
* = 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
| Main Entry: | impostor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person pretending to be something else |
| Synonyms: | actor, charlatan, cheat, con artist, deceiver, fake, fraud, hypocrite, imitator, mimic, mountebank, phony, pretender, pseudo, quack, sham, shyster, trickster, beguiler, bluffer, empiric, faker, four-flusher, impersonator, masquerader, mocker, pettifogger, scorner, sharper |
| Main Entry: | interpret |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make sense of; define |
| Synonyms: | adapt, annotate, clarify, comment, construe, decipher, decode, delineate, depict, describe, elucidate, enact, exemplify, explain, explicate, expound, gather, gloss, illustrate, image, improvise, limn, mimic, paraphrase, perform, picture, play, portray, read, render, represent, solve, spell out, take*, translate, understand, view, commentate, make of, reenact, throw light on |
| Antonyms: | misinterpret, misunderstand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mirror |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | copy, reflect |
| Synonyms: | depict, double, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, exemplify, follow, glass, illustrate, image, imitate, mimic, personify, represent, show, simulate, symbolize, take off*, typify, act like, make like |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mock |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, fake |
| Synonyms: | apish*, bogus*, counterfeit, dummy, ersatz*, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hokey*, imitation, imitative, make-believe, mimic, phony, pretended, pseudo*, quasi*, sham*, simulated, so-called*, spurious, substitute, unreal, faked, put-on |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parody |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate, spoof |
| Synonyms: | ape, burlesque, caricature, copy, deride, disparage, distort, exaggerate, impersonate, jeer, jest, joke, lampoon, laugh at, mime, mimic, mock, put on*, ridicule, roast, satirize, take off*, travesty, do a takeoff of, poke fun at, send up, sheik |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parrot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat |
| Synonyms: | ape, chant, copy, copycat, echo, imitate, mime, mimic, quote, recite, reiterate |
| Main Entry: | portray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent, imitate |
| Synonyms: | characterize, copy, delineate, depict, describe, draw, duplicate, figure, illustrate, image, impersonate, interpret, limn, mimic, paint, parody, photograph, picture, render, reproduce, simulate, sketch, act like |
| Main Entry: | replica |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplicate |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, carbon, carbon copy, clone, copy, ditto*, dupe*, facsimile, flimsy*, imitation, likeness, look-alike, mimic, miniature, model, photocopy, repeat, reproduction, chip off old block, mimeo, reduplication, replication, repro, stat |
| Antonyms: | original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ridicule |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make contemptuous fun of something or someone |
| Synonyms: | banter, caricature, cartoon, chaff, deflate, deride, expose, fleer, gibe, haze, humiliate, jape, jeer, jive, jolly, josh*, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a fool of, make a game of, make a laughing-stock, make fun of, mimic, mock, needle, pan*, parody, poke fun at, pooh-pooh*, pull one's leg, put down*, quiz, rag, rail at, rally, raz, rib*, ride*, roast*, run down*, satirize, scoff, scorn, send up*, show up, sneer, takeoff, taunt, travesty, twit, unmask |
| Antonyms: | flatter, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satirize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ridicule |
| Synonyms: | banter, burlesque, caricature, caricaturize, cartoon, deride, haze, humiliate, jape, jeer, jive, josh, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a fool of, make fun of, mimic, mock, needle, pan*, parody, poke fun at, pull one's leg, raz, rib*, ride*, roast*, spoof |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | simulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend, imitate |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, ape, assume, bluff, borrow, cheat, concoct, copy, counterfeit, crib*, deceive, disguise, dissemble, do, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, favor, feature, feign, fence, invent, knock off*, lie, lift, make believe, mimic, mirror, misrepresent, phony, pirate, play, pose, prevaricate, put on*, put on an act*, reproduce, resemble, steal, act like, do a take-off, do like, gloss over, playact, replicate |
| Antonyms: | be real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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