Synonyms of impersonated

impersonated

verb

past tense of impersonate

1

as in mocked

to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior

a school intruder was caught trying to impersonate a teacher

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mocked
• played
• imitated
• personated
• portrayed
• acted
• posed (as)
• parodied
• copied
• masqueraded (as)
• mimicked
• aped
• mimed
• performed
• travestied
• monkeyed

2

as in played

to present a portrayal or performance of

interpreters at the living history museum impersonate figures who are known to have actually lived in the colonial town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• played
• performed
• portrayed
• depicted
• interpreted
• acted
• did
• represented
• dramatized
• role-played
• rendered
• masqueraded
• imitated
• enacted
• mimicked
• aped
• pantomimed
• mimed
• acted out
• clowned
• underplayed
• overplayed
• took on
• posed (as)
• costarred
• hammed
• playacted
• overacted
• starred (in)
• coacted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of impersonated

Every major publisher, agent, editor, author union, or literary award executive is at risk of being impersonated. — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026

Last year, the AI startup removed chatbots that impersonated popular Disney characters such as Elsa and Darth Vader after the Burbank entertainment behemoth sent a cease-and-desist letter. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

According to court documents, between February 2024 and April 2025, Liu and other co-conspirators impersonated government officials to scam victims. — Tim Fang, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026

The agents also allegedly impersonated a moderator on the wiki, using an identical Cyrillic е character in the admin's username instead of the Latin one. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026

His character Ned Schneebly was supposed to be substituting — until Dewey impersonated him and stepped in. — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

The association said the money was lost after criminals impersonated its leadership and manipulated financial transactions. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

More than a year earlier, Arlington, Massachusetts sent four straight monthly payments totaling $446,000 to a criminal who had impersonated a real vendor and asked to switch from paper checks to electronic transfer. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Is RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Kori King — who famously impersonated Michael Jackson on the red carpet at the 2025 Emmys — engaged in an online squabble involving Kardashian-adjacent reality TV star Blac Chyna’s mother, Tokyo Toni? — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026