DOPPELGÄNGERS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

doppelgängers

noun

variants or doppelgangers

plural of doppelgänger

as in pictures

something or someone that strongly resembles another at the mall today I saw someone who could be your doppelgänger

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Noun

Kneeland said the photographs have become popular backdrops for customers taking pictures.

— J.M. Banks November 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2026
Rising stars from The Body stuck together, even snapping pictures in front of their nearby billboard.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

The first vertical microseries for either of them also features 90210 alum Carol Potter, who played Cindy Walsh, the mom of twins Brenda (Shannen Doherty) and Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley).

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2026
The two also shared a laugh over Lewis’ first impressions of the twins.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of twins

Noun

Mobile service vehicles for the Miami-Dade Tax Collector’s Office feature jumbo images of Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, a Republican who was also elected in 2024.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
But as far as photographing on the street, [those images] are marked by a certain distance from people or solitary figures in a vast landscape, that sort of thing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

Comic portraits, cruel melodrama and humane charity of heartbreaking tenderness explode onto the teeming streets of Victorian London.

— Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
Rain fell as families wept beside the coffins, and officers held portraits of their fallen colleagues.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2026

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