imitate
to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
to mimic; impersonate: The students imitated the teacher behind her back.
to make a copy of; reproduce closely.
to have or assume the appearance of; simulate; resemble.
Origin of imitate
1synonym study For imitate
Other words for imitate
Other words from imitate
- im·i·ta·tor, noun
- non·im·i·tat·ing, adjective
- o·ver·im·i·tate, verb (used with object), o·ver·im·i·tat·ed, o·ver·im·i·tat·ing.
- pre·im·i·tate, verb (used with object), pre·im·i·tat·ed, pre·im·i·tat·ing.
- un·im·i·tat·ed, adjective
- un·im·i·tat·ing, adjective
- well-im·i·tat·ed, adjective
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How to use imitate in a sentence
In many ways they imitate and exceed the cruelty and punitive pugilism of the leader they love so much.
Is the Republican Party Truly Trumpist Now? The Impeachment Trial Is the Ultimate Test | David French | February 10, 2021 | TimeSo imitating royal funerary practices may have been a display of social status.
An ancient Egyptian mummy was wrapped in an unusual mud shell | Maria Temming | February 3, 2021 | Science NewsHappy lamps are designed to imitate natural sunlight and correct disturbances to the circadian rhythm.
The team’s shot selection combined Morey’s algorithms with the star who embodied them more than any other NBA player ever has — an approach that came to be often imitated but never perfected like the Rockets at their peak.
James Harden’s Rockets Changed The NBA Forever | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | January 15, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe category, for which IBM received 2,789 patents last year, appears to span a wide variety of inventions related to so-called neural networks and other techniques that imitate brain functions.
IBM received the most patents in 2020. Here’s the rest of the top 20 | Jeff Roberts | January 12, 2021 | Fortune
My imitator had hundreds of followers—more than I did at the time.
Twitter required an old-fashioned fax of a government-issued ID before it would delete the imitator account.
And The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard is really interesting.
Perhaps the most odd performance was that of "Cat Harris," an imitator of the voice of cats in 1747.
Our Cats and All About Them | Harrison WeirI have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauIn the latter I was a close imitator—rather doing as others had done, than putting down the suggestions of my own mind.
Can you believe that I once had a well-deserved reputation in several nurseries as a farmyard imitator?
The Poison Belt | Arthur Conan DoyleM. Decorde calls him an imitator of Alfred de Musset, who was sometimes successful!
Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 | Gustave Flaubert
British Dictionary definitions for imitate
/ (ˈɪmɪˌteɪt) /
to try to follow the manner, style, character, etc, of or take as a model: many writers imitated the language of Shakespeare
to pretend to be or to impersonate, esp for humour; mimic
to make a copy or reproduction of; duplicate; counterfeit
to make or be like; resemble or simulate: her achievements in politics imitated her earlier successes in business
Origin of imitate
1Derived forms of imitate
- imitable, adjective
- imitability or imitableness, noun
- imitator, noun
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