mirror image

noun

1

a

: something that has its parts reversely arranged in comparison with another similar thing or that is reversed with reference to an intervening axis or plane

b

: the direct opposite

2

: image sense 4

Synonyms of mirror image

• image
• twin
• replica
• picture
• clone
• portrait
• duplicate

Examples of mirror image in a Sentence

The left side of the building is a mirror image of the right.

looking at the idealistic intern, the elderly physician could not help but see the mirror image of himself 40 years earlier

Recent Examples on the Web

And these mirror images, uniting perceptions barely conscious, were to constitute the basis from which his pilot’s dreams would someday take flight. —Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026

The trailer ends with a mirror image of the opening shot of Elizabeth now staring into a different mirror, because meta. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026

Researchers highlighted that chiral molecules are asymmetric or non-superimposable on their mirror image. —Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026

In the show, the upside down is a mirror image to the physical world, existing in a dimension below the Earth. —Katia Riddle, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for mirror image

• scrimmage

Kids Definition

mirror image

noun

: something that has its parts joined together in much the same way as those of something else except that each part of one thing is directly opposite to the corresponding part of the other thing and located on the opposite side of, the same distance away from, and facing in the same way toward or away from an axis or plane between the two things

the two sides of an animal with bilateral symmetry are mirror images of each other

Medical Definition

mirror image

noun

: something that has its parts reversely arranged in comparison with another similar thing or that is reversed with reference to an intervening axis or plane