All imitation synonyms
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I i noun imitation
- impersonation β to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- reflection β the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- impression β a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- clone β If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
- replica β a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- reproduction β the act or process of reproducing.
- mimicry β the act, practice, or art of mimicking.
- parody β a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- ringer β a person or thing that rings or makes a ringing noise: a ringer of bells; a bell that is a loud ringer.
- image β a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- fake β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- dupe β duplicate.
- takeoff β a taking or setting off; the leaving of the ground, as in leaping or in beginning a flight in an airplane.
- counterfeit β Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- simulacrum β a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- resemblance β the state or fact of resembling; similarity.
- forgery β the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
- duplicate β a copy exactly like an original.
- travesty β a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
- match β a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- sham β something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- picture β a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- semblance β outward aspect or appearance.
- mockery β ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- phony β not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- xerox β (sometimes lowercase) a copy made on a xerographic copying machine.
- mime β the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
- copy β If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
- parallel β parallel processing
- likeness β a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- ditto β the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: β³. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
- counterpart β Someone's or something's counterpart is another person or thing that has a similar function or position in a different place.
- apery β imitative behaviour; mimicry
- mimesis β Rhetoric. imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of another, as in order to represent his or her character.
- transcription β the act or process of transcribing.
- duplication β an act or instance of duplicating.
- carbon copy β If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
- matching β a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- representing β to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- aping β any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- mirroring β mirror
- paralleling β extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paraphrasing β a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- parroting β any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- patterning β a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- simulation β imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
adjective imitation
- simulated β to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- artificial β Artificial objects, materials, or processes do not occur naturally and are created by human beings, for example using science or technology.
- pretend β to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- synthetic β of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).