Synonyms for imitate
ˈɪm ɪˌteɪtim·i·tate

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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

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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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Copy
   • Resemble

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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

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1. imitateverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "imitate":

   mimic, emulate, replicate, impersonate

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How to use imitate in a sentence?

1. Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives:

   Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

2. Donald Trump:

   If I ever did that, I would be ridiculed all over the place. I won't do it. I'm not going to imitate her, she's barking like a dog, and they're saying 'wonderful.'.

3. Honoré de Balzac:

   You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

5. Edgar Degas:

   The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.