Antonyms for ape
eɪpape

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. apeverb

   Antonyms:
   not to imitate, vary, modify, change

   Synonyms:
   mimic, imitate, simulate, personate, represent

Matched Categories

1. • Imitate
   • Mock
   • Primate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apenoun

   any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

   Synonyms:
   copycat, anthropoid, emulator, aper, imitator

2. copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, apernoun

   someone who copies the words or behavior of another

   Synonyms:
   impersonator, anthropoid, emulator, aper, copycat, imitator

3. anthropoid, apeverb

   person who resembles a nonhuman primate

   Synonyms:
   copycat, anthropoid, emulator, aper, imitator

4. apeverb

   imitate uncritically and in every aspect

   "Her little brother apes her behavior"

   Synonyms:
   caricature

5. caricature, apeverb

   represent in or produce a caricature of

   "The drawing caricatured the President"

   Synonyms:
   caricature

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apenoun

   Synonyms:
   simian, pongo, gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, baboon, troglodyte

   Associated words:
   simian, simial, pithecoid, pithecan

2. apeverb

   Synonyms:
   imitate, mimic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. APE

   Synonyms:
   Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease, redox factor-1, Ref-1

How to use ape in a sentence?

1. Proverb:

   An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house

2. Greg Bockheim:

   A siamang birth is an important addition to this critically endangered lesser ape, and watching a baby grow and engage with its family is special for all of us.

3. Marty Metalgod Ross:

   Without his tools man is just a common ape.

4. Tobias Deschner:

   It could be that sharing of food resources by chimpanzees, gorillas and forest elephants in Loango National Park in Gabon result in increased competition and sometimes even in lethal interactions between the two great ape species.

5. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859:

   He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

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