| Main Entry: | mimicry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mime |
Synonyms: |
apery, aping, imitation, mockery, parroting, pretense |
| Main Entry: | mimicry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impersonation |
Synonyms: |
apery, camouflage, caricature, imitation, mimesis, mimetism, mimicking, mocking, parody, pastiche, posture |
| 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: | camouflage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise |
Synonyms: |
beard, blind, cloak, concealment, cover, coverup, deceit, deceptive marking, dissimulation, faking, false appearance, front, guise, mask, masking, masquerade, mimicry, paint, plain brown wrapper, protective coloring, red herring, screen, shade, shroud, smokescreen, veil |
| 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: | charade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
Synonyms: |
deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, pantomime, parody, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, travesty, trick |
| 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: | mockery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joke, parody |
Synonyms: |
burlesque, butt*, caricature, deception, farce, imitation, jest, lampoon, laughingstock, mimicry, mock, pretense, send-up, sham*, spoof, sport*, take-off, travesty |
Antonyms: |
seriousness, solemnity |
| Main Entry: | parody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imitation, spoof |
Synonyms: |
apology, burlesque, caricature, cartoon, copy, derision, farce, irony, jest, joke, lampoon, mime, mimicry, misrepresentation, mock-heroic, mockery, pastiche, play-on, raillery, rib, ridicule, roast, satire, send-up, skit, takeoff, travesty |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | travesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spoof, ridicule |
Synonyms: |
burlesque, caricature, distortion, exaggeration, farce, lampoon, lampoonery, mimicry, mock, mockery, parody, perversion, play, put-on, roast, satire, send-up, sham*, takeoff |
Antonyms: |
seriousness, solemnity |