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

• alter ego
• carbon
• carbon copy
• clone
• counterpart
• doppelgänger
• doppelganger
• double
• duplicate
• duplication
• facsimile
• fetch
• image
• likeness
• look-alike
• match
• picture
• replica
• ringer
• spit
• spitting image
• twin

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

From Sean Bean’s 006, Alec Trevelyan, in Goldeneye (1995) to Javier Bardem’s Silva in Skyfall, former agents have a history of turning up as formidable (and deliciously played) mirror images of Bond. —Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025

This series is a matchup of teams that are near mirror images offensively and defensively, near the top nationally in most statistical categories. —Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2025

The teams were almost mirror images of each other with a clear top player, Avery Moses for Eagle Mountain and Jacoby Boxell for Brock, but each had a handful of key support players around them. —Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Feb. 2025

In what seems to be the dark mirror image to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab intertwines stories of three different women separated by seas and centuries: María in Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1532), Charlotte in London (1827), and Alice in Boston (2019). —Natalie Zutter june 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 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