imitated

The word “imitated” has 4 syllables: im-i-ta-ted

It's pronounced as /ˈɪmɪˌteɪtɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for imitated?

In the thesaurus, “imitated” has 67 synonyms and 5 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for imitated

  • acted
  • amplified
  • aped
  • burlesqued
  • caricatured
  • cloned
  • copied
  • copycatted
  • counterfeited
  • derided
  • did
  • dissembled
  • dittoed
  • duplicated
  • echoed
  • elaborated
  • embellished
  • embroidered
  • emulated
  • enhanced
  • exaggerated
  • expanded
  • faked
  • feigned
  • forged
  • gibed
  • impersonated
  • jibed
  • knocked off
  • lampooned
  • magnified
  • mimed
  • mimicked
  • mocked
  • monkeyed
  • overdrew
  • overstated
  • padded
  • pantomimed
  • parodied
  • parroted
  • pasquinaded
  • performed
  • personated
  • plagiarized
  • played
  • played up
  • pretended
  • put on
  • re-created
  • reconstructed
  • recreated
  • reduplicated
  • reechoed
  • rendered
  • repeated
  • replicated
  • reproduced
  • ridiculed
  • ripped off
  • satirized
  • sent up
  • shammed
  • simulated
  • spoofed
  • stretched
  • travestied

Antonyms for imitated

  • created
  • imagined
  • initiated
  • invented
  • originated

Meanings of imitated

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

Example Sentences

  • The young artist imitated the famous painter’s style in her latest work.
  • His speech was so convincing that it was clear he had imitated a famous politician.
  • The new fashion line imitated the trends from the 1980s, bringing back vintage looks.
  • The actor imitated the mannerisms of a well-known celebrity for the comedy skit.
  • The student imitated the teacher’s approach to solve the complex math problem.

On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to imitated, such as: acted, amplified, aped, burlesqued, caricatured, cloned, copied.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • Hollywood
  • acted
  • ad-lib
  • ad-libbed
  • adulterated
  • affected
  • alleged
  • apish
  • apocryphal
  • apparent
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • awkward
  • bastard
  • bent
  • bluffed
  • bogus
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • camouflaged
  • campy
  • chichi
  • chimerical
  • claimed
  • clear
  • concealed
  • conceited
  • conceivable
  • concocted
  • contrived
  • cooked-up
  • copied
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeited
  • created
  • cribbed
  • crock
  • dashed off
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • deked
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • demonstrable
  • devised
  • disguised
  • dishonest
  • dissembled
  • dissimulated
  • distinct
  • doctored
  • dodged
  • dummy
  • duplicated
  • ersatz
  • evaded
  • evident
  • extemporaneous
  • extempore
  • extemporized
  • external
  • fabricated
  • factitious
  • fake
  • faked out
  • false
  • fanciful
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • fashioned
  • feigned
  • feinted
  • fictional
  • fictitious
  • fictive
  • figmental
  • fishy
  • fixed
  • forged
  • framed
  • fraud
  • fraudulent
  • fudged
  • gone Hollywood
  • ham
  • hammy
  • hatched
  • highfalutin
  • hokey
  • hollow
  • hyped-up
  • illegitimate
  • illusive
  • illusory
  • imaginary
  • imagined
  • imitated
  • imitation
  • imitative
  • impersonated
  • improv
  • improvised
  • improviso
  • insincere
  • invented
  • juggled
  • juked
  • la-di-da
  • let on
  • likely
  • made
  • made believe
  • made up
  • made-up
  • make believe
  • malingered
  • manifest
  • manipulated
  • mannered
  • manufactured
  • masked
  • masqueraded
  • melodramatic
  • mimic
  • misleading
  • mock
  • mythical
  • not genuine
  • not kosher
  • obvious
  • off the cuff
  • offhand
  • ostensible
  • ostensive
  • ostentatious
  • outward
  • overdone
  • pedantic
  • phoney
  • phonied
  • phony
  • pirate
  • plagiarized
  • plain
  • plant
  • planted
  • plastic
  • plausible
  • playacted
  • playacting
  • played
  • played by ear
  • pompous
  • posed
  • possible
  • precious
  • presumed
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretentious
  • prima facie
  • probable
  • professed
  • pseudo
  • pump-faked
  • purported
  • put on
  • put-on
  • putative
  • quasi
  • reduplicated
  • replicated
  • reproduced
  • reputed
  • romantic
  • schmaltzy
  • seeming
  • self-conscious
  • set up
  • shallow
  • sham
  • shammed
  • shot from the hip
  • sidestepped
  • simulated
  • slipped
  • snide
  • so-called
  • soft-shell
  • specious
  • spontaneous
  • spur-of-the-moment
  • spurious
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • studied
  • stutter-stepped
  • substitute
  • superficial
  • supposable
  • supposed
  • suppositious
  • supposititious
  • synthetic
  • theatrical
  • thrown off
  • tossed off
  • trumped-up
  • twee
  • two-faced
  • unauthentic
  • ungenuine
  • unnatural
  • unpremeditated
  • unprepared
  • unreal
  • unscripted
  • unstudied
  • vamped
  • visible
  • whipped up
  • winged
  • wrong

hammy

  • a bit thick
  • abstract
  • actorish
  • actorly
  • actressy
  • affected
  • amplified
  • apish
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • awkward
  • blood-and-thunder
  • bombastic
  • bouncing
  • campy
  • caricatural
  • ceremonious
  • chichi
  • cliff-hanging
  • cloak-and-dagger
  • comic
  • conceited
  • conspicuous
  • contrived
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeited
  • distorted
  • dramatic
  • dramaturgic
  • elaborate
  • embroidered
  • emotional
  • exaggerated
  • exalted
  • excessive
  • extravagant
  • fabricated
  • fabulous
  • faked
  • false
  • fantastic
  • farcical
  • farfetched
  • feigned
  • flamboyant
  • fraud
  • fraudulent
  • frenzied
  • gone Hollywood
  • grandiloquent
  • grandiose
  • ham
  • highfalutin
  • highly colored
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • hokey
  • hollow
  • hyperbolic
  • imitated
  • impossible
  • inflated
  • insincere
  • la-di-da
  • magnified
  • mannered
  • maudlin
  • mawkish
  • melodramatic
  • meretricious
  • operatic
  • ostentatious
  • out of proportion
  • overacted
  • overacting
  • overblown
  • overdone
  • overdramatic
  • overemotional
  • overestimated
  • overkill
  • overplayed
  • overwrought
  • pedantic
  • phony
  • playacting
  • pompous
  • precious
  • preposterous
  • pretended
  • pretentious
  • put on
  • schmaltzy
  • self-conscious
  • sensational
  • sentimental
  • shallow
  • sham
  • showy
  • simulated
  • spectacular
  • spurious
  • staged
  • stagey
  • stagy
  • steep
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • strained
  • studied
  • stylized
  • superficial
  • tall
  • theatric
  • theatrical
  • thespian
  • too much
  • too-too
  • tragic
  • twee
  • unnatural
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • vaudeville

echoed

  • aped
  • cast back
  • cited
  • copied
  • copycatted
  • dittoed
  • emulated
  • excerpted
  • extracted
  • imitated
  • instanced
  • mimed
  • mimicked
  • mouthed
  • paraphrased
  • parroted
  • plagiarized
  • quoted
  • rang
  • reannounced
  • recapitulated
  • recited
  • reechoed
  • rehashed
  • reiterated
  • repeated
  • reproduced
  • resonated
  • resounded
  • restated
  • retold
  • returned
  • reuttered
  • reverberated
  • rolled
  • sounded

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