Synonyms of imitating

imitating

verb

present participle of imitate

1

as in emulating

to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior

teenage musicians who imitate whichever rock stars are hot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• emulating
• copying
• mimicking
• mocking
• aping
• repeating
• miming
• parodying
• echoing
• performing
• playing
• copycatting
• caricaturing
• lampooning
• impersonating
• burlesquing
• pantomiming
• reechoing
• dittoing
• travestying

2

as in parodying

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of

imitating someone's stutter and laughing at them is a cruel thing to do

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parodying
• mocking
• doing
• mimicking
• spoofing
• caricaturing
• emulating
• burlesquing
• simulating
• playing
• ridiculing
• reproducing
• performing
• sending up
• pretending
• travestying
• satirizing
• aping
• replicating
• deriding
• lampooning
• duplicating
• parroting
• acting
• enhancing
• gibing
• feigning
• personating
• monkeying
• stretching
• jibing
• miming
• exaggerating
• faking
• elaborating
• shamming
• pantomiming
• embroidering
• counterfeiting
• embellishing
• expanding
• impersonating
• amplifying
• copycatting
• dissembling
• padding
• overstating
• magnifying
• playing up
• pasquinading
• enlarging (on or upon)
• overdrawing
• putting on
• fleshing (out)

3

as in copying

to make an exact likeness of

a second-rate artist who was notorious for imitating the works of other painters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• copying
• reproducing
• replicating
• rendering
• duplicating
• recreating
• cloning
• simulating
• reconstructing
• copycatting
• mimicking
• reduplicating
• forging
• counterfeiting
• faking
• ripping off
• re-creating
• knocking off

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• originating
• creating
• initiating
• imagining
• inventing