Synonyms of facsimiles

facsimiles

noun

plural of facsimile

1

as in pictures

something or someone that strongly resembles another

the family resemblance is so strong that the boy is virtually a pint-size facsimile of his father

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pictures
• replicas
• images
• twins
• clones
• portraits
• duplicates
• counterparts
• likenesses
• equivalents
• duplications
• doubles
• carbons
• mirror images
• carbon copies
• portrayals
• ringers
• doppelgängers
• look-alikes
• alter egos
• effigies
• spits
• fetches
• matches
• spitting images
• companions
• analogues
• equals
• fellows
• parallels
• mates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opposites
• antitheses
• reverses
• converses

2

as in copies

something that is made to look exactly like something else

this is not an antique copy of the Declaration of Independence but a modern facsimile

Synonyms & Similar Words

• copies
• reproductions
• replicas
• imitations
• versions
• clones
• duplicates
• replications
• dupes
• carbons
• carbon copies
• duplications
• mocks
• reconstructions
• dummies
• forgeries
• reduplications
• simulations
• miniatures
• counterfeits
• knockoffs
• prints
• fakes
• likenesses
• rubber stamps
• shadows
• phonies
• approximations
• images
• mock-ups
• impressions
• re-creations
• reincarnations
• rip-offs
• semblances
• imprints
• shams
• spares
• extras
• reserves

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• originals
• prototypes
• archetypes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of facsimiles

But there’s always the risk that the variations become lifeless facsimiles. — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 8 Aug. 2026

Seventeen were replaced with reproductions or facsimiles, while three were taken off view. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Handwritten Song Manuscripts by Paul McCartney – A collection of facsimiles of handwritten lyrics by McCartney throughout the 1970s. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 May 2026

Drawing at least in part on information from Chalker’s defectors, the Pentagon constructed life-size underground facsimiles of Iranian nuclear facilities where the scientists had worked, attempting to duplicate even the thickness of the walls. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

The Carter Museum also partnered with the Fort Worth History Center to provide a number of archival materials, photographs, and facsimiles of the Como Weekly, a Black newspaper in the Lake Como community that ran from 1940 until 1986. — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026

The installation reproduces local KGB archives on Stalin and facsimiles of historical artifacts of the 1960s placed around an AR reconstruction of Buddha in Nirvana, a forty-three-foot-long, 1,600-year-old clay statue of a reclining Buddha excavated in Tajikistan in the late ’60s. — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026

McCarthy moved to his current studio in 2012, and around then, bought land out in the Tehachapi Mountains to serve as Wild West backdrops, not unlike the early film studios buying up tumbleweed stables in Topanga to serve as facsimiles of one-horse towns to shoot westerns. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026

After spending years mostly directing his own projects, usually to middling reviews, Clooney has recently turned in a couple of performances that felt like pale facsimiles of former glories, in the rom-com Ticket to Paradise and the action-thriller Wolfs. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025