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

But this looked like a mirror image of Game 1. —Dan Woike, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026

MacDowell and Margaret were a mirror image of each other at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. —Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026

But what Horowitz is watching among founders—call it AI anxiety from above, the fear of not moving fast enough—is the mirror image of what’s happening on the ground inside the companies those founders run. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026

Not just related to the writing process, replicas and their cousins (mirror images, lookalikes, doubles/multiples) appear throughout the book across generations, and between friends and strangers. —Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026

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