as in performer
a person who imitates another's voice and mannerisms for comic effect
a celebrated impressionist who can do enough rapid-fire imitations to populate an entire stage with characters
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Recent Examples of impressionist
Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2025
Chloe Fineman is becoming Saturday Night Live's resident master impressionist.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Noun
In last night’s cold open, the SNL cast member James Austin Johnson, the show’s resident Donald Trump impressionist, responded to the dig.
—Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2025
Chloe Fineman is becoming Saturday Night Live's resident master impressionist.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
The entire collection was inspired by the post-impressionist painter, featuring bursts of color and delicate construction throughout, curated by Rodarte founders Kate and Laura Mulleavy.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Noun
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Earlier, Fox shared footage of herself to her Instagram Story, which showed her — as the former first lady — grabbing the breast of performer Linux.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Hans is engaged to a fellow performer, but Cleopatra has her eyes on Hans’s sizable inheritance.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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White Out is like something from the high-modernist era of Joyce and Woolf—dark, fragmented, impressionistic, saturated with irony and black humor.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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Those scenes serve to blend the past and present in a way that suits the film’s impressionistic style.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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Being an actor means constantly outputting — expressing — but rarely having time to take in new experiences.—
Gavin J Blair,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Nov. 2025
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The halter neck and close-fitting dress is a signature shape for the actor, and of course, a go-to label.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Eiichi Yamamoto’s expressionistic picture, adapted from Jules Michelet’s non-fiction Satanism and Witchcraft, initially seems to be a rape-revenge setup fairly typical of the ’70s.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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The first major Frankenstein film liberally adapts the source material, but in lieu of staging the novel as written, James Whale leans into expressionistic production design and Gothic spectacle.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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Guided by the examples of Will Smith and Denzel Washington, the entertainer’s mindset is about longevity, range, and impact.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
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June was proud to be an entertainer.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Our version of the expressionist silent film was performed onstage, all in black and white.—
Robert Eggers,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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Day-Lewis, 68, co-wrote the film with his son, Ronan, 27, who also makes his directorial debut with the expressionist drama.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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This quickly became the world's best-selling pen and was soon followed by many imitators that sold in the billions.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Oct. 2025
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These are people who are in the know, many of whom actually thought of him as kind of a loser, as kind of an imitator.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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Many impersonators use public details like your hometown, workplace or family connections to build fake profiles that seem trustworthy.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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The spokesman pointed to Spotify's new AI protections for artists and music producers, which includes stepped up enforcement of AI impersonators, like in this case.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Impressionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionist. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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