imitate

The word “imitate” has 3 syllables: im-i-tate

It's pronounced as /ˈɪmɪteɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for imitate?

In the thesaurus, “imitate” has 88 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for imitate along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for imitate

  • Xerox
  • act
  • act like
  • affect
  • amplify
  • ape
  • assume
  • be like
  • borrow
  • burlesque
  • carbon
  • caricature
  • clone
  • copy
  • copycat
  • counterfeit
  • deride
  • dissemble
  • ditto
  • do
  • do like
  • do likewise
  • duplicate
  • echo
  • elaborate
  • embellish
  • embroider
  • emulate
  • enhance
  • exaggerate
  • expand
  • fake
  • falsify
  • feign
  • follow
  • follow in footsteps
  • follow suit
  • forge
  • gibe
  • impersonate
  • jibe
  • knock off
  • lampoon
  • look like
  • magnify
  • match
  • mime
  • mimic
  • mirror
  • mock
  • model after
  • monkey
  • overdraw
  • overstate
  • pad
  • pantomime
  • parallel
  • parody
  • parrot
  • pasquinade
  • pattern after
  • perform
  • personate
  • play
  • play a part
  • play up
  • pretend
  • put on
  • re-create
  • reconstruct
  • reduplicate
  • reecho
  • reflect
  • render
  • repeat
  • replicate
  • reproduce
  • resemble
  • ridicule
  • rip off
  • satirize
  • send up
  • sham
  • simulate
  • spoof
  • stretch
  • take off
  • travesty

Antonyms for imitate

  • be original
  • clash
  • create
  • differ
  • disregard
  • imagine
  • initiate
  • invent
  • oppose
  • originate
  • reverse
  • tell the truth

Meanings of imitate

  • verb
    1. To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

Example Sentences

  • Children often imitate their parents’ behaviors as they learn how to interact with the world.
  • The artist tried to imitate the style of the old masters in his new painting.
  • It’s common for young actors to imitate their favorite celebrities in auditions.
  • Some animals can imitate human sounds to communicate with their handlers.
  • The robot is designed to imitate human movements for more natural interactions.

On this page you'll find 100 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to imitate, such as: Xerox, act, act like, affect, amplify, ape, assume.

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keep an eye on

  • abide by
  • accomplish
  • accord
  • adhere to
  • administer
  • adopt
  • advance
  • advise
  • aid
  • angel
  • attend
  • attend to
  • audit
  • baby sit
  • baby-sit
  • back
  • bankroll
  • be a source of strength
  • be attentive
  • be consistent with
  • be devoted to
  • be guided by
  • be in charge
  • be in keeping
  • be in the saddle
  • be interested in
  • be on duty
  • be responsible for
  • beam
  • bedog
  • behold
  • boss
  • bring up
  • bulwark
  • buoy up
  • call the play
  • call the shots
  • captain
  • care for
  • case
  • catch
  • cater to
  • chaperon
  • chaperone
  • check
  • check out
  • cherish
  • command
  • comply
  • concentrate
  • concentrate on
  • conduct
  • conform
  • contemplate
  • control
  • convoy
  • copy
  • corral
  • counsel
  • cover
  • cover up
  • crack the whip
  • cradle
  • cultivate
  • deal with
  • defend
  • detect
  • devote oneself
  • dig
  • direct
  • discern
  • discipline
  • discover
  • distinguish
  • do
  • do for
  • do like
  • dog
  • eagle eye
  • eagle-eye
  • emulate
  • encourage
  • ensure
  • escort
  • espy
  • examine
  • eye
  • eyeball
  • father
  • feed
  • fend
  • finance
  • flash
  • focus
  • follow
  • follow suit
  • fortify
  • forward
  • foster
  • fund
  • further
  • gape
  • gawk
  • gaze
  • get a load of
  • get an eyeful of
  • give a leg up
  • give allegiance to
  • give heed to
  • give the once-over
  • glance
  • glare
  • glimpse
  • goggle
  • govern
  • guard
  • handle
  • harbor
  • harmonize
  • have a look-see
  • have charge of
  • hear
  • hearken
  • heed
  • herd
  • hold fast
  • hound
  • humor
  • imitate
  • immunize
  • indulge
  • inoculate
  • inspect
  • irradiate
  • keep
  • keep abreast of
  • keep alive
  • keep in view
  • keep tabs on
  • keep track of
  • keep under surveillance
  • lamp
  • lend an ear
  • listen
  • listen up
  • live up to
  • look
  • look after
  • look at
  • look on
  • lookout
  • maintain
  • make a living
  • make certain
  • make out
  • manage
  • mark
  • match
  • medicate
  • mimic
  • mind
  • mind the store
  • minister
  • minister to
  • mirror
  • model on
  • monitor
  • mother
  • note
  • notice
  • nourish
  • nurse
  • nurture
  • obey
  • observe
  • occupy oneself with
  • overlook
  • oversee
  • pamper
  • patrol
  • pattern oneself upon
  • pay attention
  • pay attention to
  • pay expenses of
  • pay for
  • pay heed
  • peek
  • peep
  • peer
  • perceive
  • perform
  • pick up
  • pick up on
  • pick up the check
  • pipe
  • police
  • preserve
  • preside over
  • promote
  • prop
  • protect
  • provide for
  • pursue
  • put up money for
  • quarterback
  • raise
  • read
  • recognize
  • record
  • reflect
  • regard
  • ride herd on
  • ride shotgun for
  • rubberneck
  • run
  • run the show
  • run things
  • safeguard
  • save
  • scan
  • scope
  • screen
  • scrutinize
  • secure
  • see
  • see after
  • see to
  • serve
  • set up
  • shadow
  • shelter
  • shepherd
  • shield
  • shotgun
  • sight
  • sit
  • sit on top of
  • skipper
  • sponsor
  • spot
  • spy
  • stake
  • stalk
  • stare
  • stiffen
  • stonewall
  • strengthen
  • string along
  • stroke
  • study
  • subsidize
  • succor
  • superintend
  • supervise
  • support
  • surveil
  • survey
  • sustain
  • tag
  • take a gander
  • take after
  • take as an example
  • take care of
  • take charge of
  • take in
  • take notice
  • take pains
  • take under wing
  • tend
  • track
  • trail
  • treat
  • underwrite
  • uphold
  • vaccinate
  • view
  • wait
  • wait on
  • watch
  • watch out for
  • watch over
  • witness

echo

  • afterimage
  • aftertaste
  • answer
  • ape
  • aper
  • artifact
  • balance
  • copy
  • copycat
  • copyist
  • corpse
  • ditto
  • do like
  • emulate
  • emulator
  • follower
  • ghost
  • go like
  • hangover
  • imitate
  • imitation
  • imitator
  • impersonate
  • impersonator
  • impressionist
  • leavings
  • leftover
  • make like
  • memento
  • mime
  • mimic
  • mirror
  • mirror image
  • mouth
  • oddment
  • onomatopoeia
  • parallel
  • parrot
  • parroting
  • quote
  • react
  • rebound
  • recall
  • redouble
  • reecho
  • reflect
  • reflection
  • reiterate
  • reiteration
  • relic
  • remainder
  • remembrance
  • reminder
  • remnant
  • repeat
  • repercussion
  • repetition
  • reply
  • reproduce
  • reproduction
  • resemble
  • residual
  • residue
  • resonate
  • resound
  • respond
  • rest
  • reverberate
  • reverberation
  • ring
  • ringing
  • roll
  • rubber stamp
  • rubber-stamp
  • scrap
  • second
  • shadow
  • sound
  • trace
  • vestige
  • vibrate
  • wannabe
  • wannabee

echoes

  • afterimages
  • aftertastes
  • answer
  • ape
  • apers
  • apes
  • artifacts
  • balances
  • copies
  • copycats
  • copyists
  • corpses
  • ditto
  • dittos
  • do like
  • dregs
  • emulates
  • emulators
  • followers
  • ghosts
  • go like
  • hangovers
  • imitate
  • imitates
  • imitation
  • imitators
  • impersonate
  • impersonators
  • impressionists
  • leavings
  • leftovers
  • make like
  • mementoes
  • mementos
  • mimes
  • mimic
  • mimics
  • mirror
  • mirror image
  • mouths
  • oddments
  • onomatopoeia
  • parallel
  • parrot
  • parroting
  • parrots
  • quotes
  • react
  • rebound
  • recall
  • redouble
  • reechos
  • reflect
  • reflection
  • reiterate
  • reiteration
  • relics
  • remainders
  • remains
  • remembrances
  • reminders
  • remnants
  • repeats
  • repercussion
  • repetition
  • reply
  • reproduce
  • reproduction
  • resemble
  • residuals
  • residues
  • resonates
  • resound
  • resounds
  • respond
  • rests
  • reverberate
  • reverberates
  • reverberation
  • ring
  • ringing
  • rings
  • rolls
  • rubber stamp
  • rubber stamps
  • rubber-stamp
  • scraps
  • second
  • shadows
  • sounds
  • traces
  • vestiges
  • vibrate
  • wannabees
  • wannabes

fake

  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • act
  • actor
  • ad-lib
  • adulterate
  • adulterated
  • affect
  • affected
  • artful
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • automatic
  • backhanded
  • bastard
  • bluff
  • bluffer
  • bogus
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • calculated
  • camouflage
  • campy
  • canned
  • canting
  • charlatan
  • cheat
  • claptrap
  • conceal
  • concoct
  • concocted
  • conscious
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conventional
  • copy
  • copycat
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiter
  • cozener
  • crib
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • cute
  • cutesy
  • deceitful
  • deceiver
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defrauder
  • deke
  • deliberate
  • delusive
  • designer
  • devious
  • devise
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dissemble
  • dissembler
  • dissimulate
  • doctor
  • doctored
  • dodge
  • dodger
  • double
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • duffer
  • dummy
  • duper
  • duplicate
  • empty
  • engineered
  • ersatz
  • evade
  • exaggerated
  • extemporize
  • fabricate
  • fabricated
  • fabrication
  • facetious
  • facile
  • facsimile
  • factitious
  • fake out
  • faker
  • fakir
  • false
  • faux
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feigner
  • feint
  • fictitious
  • flimflam
  • forced
  • forge
  • forged
  • forgery
  • formal
  • four-flusher
  • fraud
  • fraudster
  • fraudulent
  • fudge
  • fudged
  • gaff
  • genteel
  • glib
  • gold brick
  • goody-goody
  • hatch
  • histrionic
  • hoax
  • hoaxer
  • hokey
  • hollow
  • humbug
  • hypocritical
  • imitate
  • imitation
  • imitative
  • imitator
  • impersonal
  • impersonate
  • impersonator
  • imposition
  • imposter
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improvise
  • inauthentic
  • inflexible
  • insincere
  • invent
  • invented
  • jive
  • jocular
  • juggle
  • juggled
  • juke
  • junque
  • knockoff
  • labored
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lip
  • make believe
  • make up
  • malinger
  • man-made
  • manipulate
  • manipulated
  • manufacture
  • manufactured
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • melodramatic
  • mimic
  • mincing
  • misleader
  • misleading
  • mock
  • mock-up
  • mountebank
  • nonfunctioning
  • operator
  • ornamental
  • overacted
  • overdone
  • overrefined
  • pat
  • pharisaical
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phony
  • phony-baloney
  • pinchbeck
  • pious
  • plagiarize
  • plant
  • plastic
  • play
  • playact
  • pose
  • poseur
  • premeditated
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretender
  • pretense
  • process
  • profess
  • pseudo
  • pump-fake
  • put on
  • put on an act
  • put-on
  • quack
  • quacksalver
  • queer
  • reduplicate
  • replica
  • replicate
  • reproduce
  • reproduction
  • rigid
  • ringer
  • sanctimonious
  • scam
  • scammer
  • scamster
  • self-righteous
  • sham
  • sharper
  • sharpie
  • sharpy
  • shoddy
  • sidestep
  • simon-pure
  • simpering
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • simulation
  • skinner
  • sleight
  • slip
  • snide
  • spoof
  • spurious
  • stiff
  • strained
  • studied
  • stutter-step
  • stylized
  • substitute
  • superficial
  • swindle
  • swindler
  • synthetic
  • theatric
  • theatrical
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • trick
  • trickster
  • two-faced
  • unauthentic
  • unctuous
  • unnatural
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • untruthful
  • wooden

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