imitation
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Synonyms & Antonyms for imitation
Synonyms: Noun
carbon, carbon copy, clone, copy, dummy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, mock, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction
Synonyms: Adjective
artificial, bogus, dummy, ersatz, factitious, fake, false, faux, imitative, man-made, mimic, mock, pretend, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic
Antonyms: Noun
archetype, original, prototype
Antonyms: Adjective
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Examples of imitation in a Sentence
Noun
Children learn by imitation of adults. The restaurant was designed in imitation of a Japanese temple. He did a hilarious imitation of his father. The real diamonds are in a museum. These are just imitations.Adjective
the stage production uses only imitation diamonds, as real gems would be prohibitively expensive
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The imitation was crude and cruel, but the point was again to make a woman sound stupid, too clueless to make her own decisions. — Glamour, "Tucker Carlson Said Furious Women Should Watch Him. Here’s What I See.," 19 Mar. 2019 When Instagram and Yelp are crowded with 300 pictures of your latest dish or cutting-edge bar decor, imitation isn't just a form of flattery; it's intellectual theft that is entirely legal and impossible to prevent. — Laura Reiley | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, "The golden age of restaurants is ending, new book argues," 18 July 2019 That includes the capacity for nonverbal movement imitation, a tendency to form long-term social bonds, the ability to learn complex sequences of actions, and attentiveness to communicative movements. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "What This Head-Banging, Body-Rolling Cockatoo Teaches Us About the Evolution of Dance," 11 July 2019 Kutcher tweeted Saturday that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and cited Oscar Wilde for the quote. — Fox News, "Principal accused of copying Kutcher speech is suspended," 12 June 2019 As the years passed, evidence poured in for a similar mechanism in humans, and mirror neurons became implicated in a long list of phenomena, including empathy, imitation, altruism and autism spectrum disorder, among others. — Raleigh Mcelvery, WIRED, "How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception, and Meaning," 31 Mar. 2019 In France, the boy performed his Napoleon imitation only once, at the request of King Louis-Philippe, during a private show at the royal country palace. — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, "What P. T. Barnum Understood About America," 29 July 2019 Fans — both men and women alike — participating in the event were encouraged to share their imitations on social media by using the hashtags #katzsdeli, #fakeitlikemeg and #whenharrymetsally. — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, "Rob Reiner Says Harry and Sally Were Not Supposed to End Up Together in When Harry Met Sally," 15 July 2019 Tyson sold that investment ahead of Beyond Meat’s May debut because executives decided Tyson had the research and manufacturing capabilities to soon introduce its own meat imitations, Mr. Whitmore said. — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, "Tyson’s New Nuggets Swap In Peas for Chicken, as Meatless Frenzy Grows," 13 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'imitation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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