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| Main Entry: |
imitate
 [im-i-teyt] 
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| 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 |
| Notes: | emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks |
| Antonyms: | be original, clash, differ, oppose, reverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Notes: | a monkey is a primate and not a type of ape, an ape is a primate and not a type of monkey, and a chimpanzee is a type of ape (so it's a primate but not a monkey) |
* = 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 |
Example Sentences
- If you're looking for a role model in a world of complexity, you could do worse than to imitate a bee.
- The children dance and pose to imitate the sculptures.
- And then, those nations that survive, will set the pace that others will imitate.
| 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, mimeo, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, photostat, picture, plagiarize, portray, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, stat, trace, transcribe |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a copy; repeat |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, act like, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do a takeoff, do again, do like, double, dualize, dupe, echo, fake, go like, imitate, knock off, make like, make replica, make twofold, manifold, mimeo, mirror, multiply, phony, photocopy, photostat, pirate*, redo, redouble, reduplicate, remake, replicate, repro, reproduce, rework, stat, take off as, trace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | copy the actions of |
| Synonyms: | challenge, compete, compete with, contend, contend with, ditto*, do like, do*, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, follow the example of, go like, imitate, make like, mimic, mirror, outvie, pattern after, rival, rivalize, take after, vie with |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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