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
• sending up
• ridiculing
• reproducing
• performing
• travestying
• satirizing
• pretending
• aping
• replicating
• deriding
• lampooning
• duplicating
• parroting
• acting
• gibing
• feigning
• enhancing
• monkeying
• miming
• stretching
• exaggerating
• personating
• faking
• elaborating
• shamming
• pantomiming
• embroidering
• counterfeiting
• embellishing
• impersonating
• copycatting
• amplifying
• expanding
• 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
• cloning
• reconstructing
• simulating
• copycatting
• mimicking
• reduplicating
• forging
• counterfeiting
• faking
• ripping off
• re-creating
• knocking off

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• originating
• creating
• initiating
• imagining
• inventing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of imitating

Speaking of the oversized, the collection’s Handloom Cardigan fits the bill but spares you from imitating a balloon, courtesy of those vertical stripes (also known as the oldest optical trick in the fashion book). — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

Her makeup could not be prettier or more ideal for imitating, with its barely-there shimmer shadow, the softest possible wing, and gloss in what appears to be her natural lip color. — Marci Robin, Allure, 27 Sep. 2026

The league immediately decided Juszczyk was imitating drinking beer. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026

In a case of life imitating art, the real-life age gap between actors Reinhart and Bateman is pretty close to that of Olive and Adam. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026

Rather than taking advantage of genuine quantum effects, Scholes proposes, life might be imitating them instead. — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026

One year later, Clooney, 65, is back at the Venice Film Festival for a spin in the spotlight on the opening night for a bit of life imitating art. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Slop is formulaic and impersonal, the aggregate of everything that is already imitating everything else. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

Cohen created the character of Ali G for Channel 4’s The 11 O’Clock Show in 1998, playing a British suburbanite imitating urban, British Jamaican culture. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2026