Synonyms of imitated

imitated

verb

past tense of imitate

1

as in copied

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

• copied
• emulated
• mimicked
• aped
• mocked
• repeated
• mimed
• parodied
• echoed
• performed
• played
• copycatted
• caricatured
• burlesqued
• lampooned
• travestied
• dittoed
• reechoed
• impersonated
• pantomimed

2

as in parodied

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

• parodied
• mocked
• mimicked
• did
• spoofed
• caricatured
• burlesqued
• travestied
• emulated
• sent up
• reproduced
• ridiculed
• played
• performed
• satirized
• simulated
• aped
• derided
• replicated
• pretended
• lampooned
• duplicated
• parroted
• counterfeited
• elaborated
• acted
• gibed
• exaggerated
• personated
• feigned
• enhanced
• embellished
• mimed
• stretched
• dissembled
• embroidered
• faked
• amplified
• copycatted
• padded
• expanded
• overstated
• pantomimed
• impersonated
• magnified
• monkeyed
• played up
• pasquinaded
• shammed
• enlarged (on or upon)
• fleshed (out)
• put on
• overdrew

3

as in reproduced

to make an exact likeness of

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• copied
• reproduced
• replicated
• rendered
• duplicated
• cloned
• reduplicated
• reconstructed
• copycatted
• simulated
• mimicked
• counterfeited
• forged
• faked
• ripped off
• re-created
• knocked off

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• created
• originated
• initiated
• invented
• imagined

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of imitated

The slow exchange with oxygen is imitated with micro-oxygenation technology — essentially, blowing bubbles through the wine. — Peter Hahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

This succinct statement follows outpourings of both support and criticism of Sims, including additional allegations that YISE has imitated other beauty brands—the very thing Sims was lamenting. — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Sep. 2026

The ads imitated sponsored search ads used by legitimate banks. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026

The ’90s — its music, its films, its pre-social-media privacy — has become an object of fascination, and Long argues the era can’t be imitated or counterfeited. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

We’ve been copied, we’ve been imitated, we have been pushed to the back. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

For incumbent candidate Dan McKee, art has already imitated life. — Whitman Littlefield, The Providence Journal, 9 Sep. 2026

Still, Nixon created a blueprint for presidential lawlessness that Trump imitated and greatly expanded. — Elizabeth Holtzman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

The University of Chicago, University of Illinois and Columbia University soon imitated this approach. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026