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Synonyms for imitate
ˈɪm ɪˌteɪtim·i·tate

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.2 / 6 votes

  1. imitate

    Anything that comes after or goes after another, either in space or in time, is said to follow it. A servant follows or attends his master; a victorious general may follow the retiring enemy merely to watch and hold him in check; he chases or pursues with intent to overtake and attack; the chase is closer and hotter than the pursuit. (Compare synonyms for HUNT.) One event may follow another either with or without special connection; if it ensues, there is some orderly connection; as, the ensuing year; if it results from another, there is some relation of effect, consequence, or inference. A clerk observes his employer's directions. A child obeys his parent's commands, follows or copies his example, imitates his speech and manners. The compositor follows copy; the incoming succeeds the outgoing official.

    Synonyms:
    accompany, attend, chase, come after, copy, ensue, follow, go after, heed, obey, observe, practise, pursue, result, succeed

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 4 votes

  1. imitate

    Synonyms:
    represent, copy, resemble, follow, portray, depict, repeat, pattern after, mock, ape, counterfeit, mimic

    Antonyms:
    misrepresent, caricature, alter, vary, dissimilate, differentiate, modify, remodel, distort

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. imitate, copy, simulateverb

    reproduce someone's behavior or looks

    "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

    Synonyms:
    copy, re-create, feign, sham, assume, replicate, simulate, model

  2. imitateverb

    appear like, as in behavior or appearance

    "Life imitate art"

    Synonyms:
    simulate, copy

  3. imitateverb

    make a reproduction or copy of

    Synonyms:
    simulate, copy

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. imitateverb

    Synonyms:
    copy, follow, pattern after

  2. imitateverb

    Synonyms:
    mimic, ape, mock, personate, impersonate, take off

  3. imitateverb

    Synonyms:
    parody, travesty, turn into burlesque

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. imitateverb

    Synonyms:
    copy, ape, counterfeit, personate, impersonate, mimic, simulate, parody, caricature

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "imitate":

    mimic, emulate, replicate, impersonate

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How to use imitate in a sentence?

  1. William Shakespeare:

    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  2. Louis XIV of France:

    Do not follow the bad example which I have set you; I have often undertaken war too lightly and have sustained it for vanity. Do not imitate me, but be a peaceful prince, and may you apply yourself principally to the alleviation of the burdens of your subjects

  3. Oscar Wilde:

    While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

  4. Juvenal:

    Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  5. Miles Davis:

    First you imitate, then you innovate.


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