Synonyms of mirror images

mirror images

noun

plural of mirror image

as in pictures

something or someone that strongly resembles another

looking at the idealistic intern, the elderly physician could not help but see the mirror image of himself 40 years earlier

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opposites
• reverses
• antitheses
• converses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mirror images

In addition to developing better medicines or perfumes, deciphering the mirror images of molecules can help scientists understand the chemical architecture of life, said chemist Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science. — Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026

The chemistry prize recognized two scientists for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

This is a phenomenon known as chirality, from the Greek word for hand (as hands are mirror images of one another). — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 7 Oct. 2026

The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

Foreign Tongues was built around leftover material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions, and the two albums are such mirror images of one another that they may as well have been released together, Use Your Illusion-style. — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026

Parker, who also shares son James, 23, with husband Matthew Broderick, previously pushed back on the stereotype that her twins are mirror images of each other. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 June 2026

Also, the two opposing narratives were mirror images of each other in volume and posting cadence, suggesting that the same culprit may have been amplifying both sides of the fight. — Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 May 2026

Not just related to the writing process, replicas and their cousins (mirror images, lookalikes, doubles/multiples) appear throughout the book across generations, and between friends and strangers. — Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026