Impersonate - English meaning

ɪmˈpɜː.sən.eɪt

Impersonate – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Pretend to be (another person) for entertainment or fraud.
Usage examples:
It's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer
Synonims:
ImitateMimicDo an impression ofApeParodyCaricatureBurlesqueTravestyMockSatirizeLampoonMasquerade asPose asPass oneself off asProfess to bePurport to beRepresent oneself asTak

verb
To intentionally copy another person’s speech, appearance, or behavior
Usage examples:
To impersonate a movie star, he was charged with impersonating a police officer.

verb
To intentionally copy another person's characteristics, such as their behaviour, speech, appearance, or expressions, especially to make people laugh
Usage examples:
She's the woman who impersonates all the celebrities on tv.

verb
To attempt to deceive someone by pretending that you are another person
Usage examples:
He was fined for impersonating a police officer.

Impersonate translation into English

Impersonate: translate from English into Chinese

模仿, 饰, 学舌, 拟人

Impersonate: translate from English into Dutch

Imiteren, Verpersoonlijken, Spelen, Vertolken, Belichamen, Voorstellen

Impersonate: translate from English into French

Imiter, Se faire passer pour

Impersonate: translate from English into German

Imitieren, Nachahmen, Darstellen, Sich ausgeben als

Impersonate: translate from English into Hindi

अभिनय करना, वेष बदलना, जाली आदमी बनना, भेष बनाना, नाम देना

Impersonate: translate from English into Italian

Impersonare, Spacciarsi per

Impersonate: translate from English into Korean

가장, 역을 맡아하다, 가장하다, 행세하다

Impersonate: translate from English into Russian

Выдавать себя за, Выдавать себя, Олицетворять, Исполнять роль, Воплощать

Impersonate: translate from English into Spanish

Personificar, Imitar, Hacer el papel de, Hacerse pasar por otra persona

Word origin

early 17th century (in the sense ‘personify’): from in-2 ‘into’ + Latin persona ‘person’, on the pattern of incorporate .

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Impersonate – similar words

impersonal

ɪmˈpɜː.sən.əl

adjective
Not influenced by, showing, or involving personal feelings.
Usage examples:
The impersonal power of a government

adjective
Lacking or not showing any interest or feeling
Usage examples:
The congressman gave a short, impersonal speech and left soon afterward.

adjective
Without human warmth; not friendly and without features that make people feel interested or involved
Usage examples:
She has a very cold and impersonal manner., hospitals always seem so impersonal - rows of identical…

Impersonal - all meanings in English

Impersonate synonims

ape

eɪp

noun
A large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orangutan, and gibbons.
Usage examples:
Mother apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans - dote on their babies.

verb
Imitate (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way.
Usage examples:
New architecture can respect the old without aping its style

noun
An animal like a large monkey with no tail, that uses its arms to move through trees
Usage examples:
Chimpanzees and gorillas are both apes.

Ape - all meanings in English

burlesque

bɜːˈlesk

noun
An absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.
Usage examples:
A novel which is a burlesque of the literary life

verb
Parody or imitate in an absurd or comically exaggerated way.
Usage examples:
A mock-heroic farce that burlesques the affectations of restoration heroic drama

noun
A type of writing or acting that tries to make something serious seem stupid and funny
Usage examples:
The dance scene is in part a burlesque of bollywood films., the political burlesques are not very h…

Burlesque - all meanings in English

caricature

ˈkær.ɪ.kə.tʃʊər

noun
A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
Usage examples:
A crude caricature of the prime minister

verb
Make or give a caricature of.
Usage examples:
He was famous enough to be caricatured by private eye

noun
A drawing or a written or spoken description that makes part of someone's appearance or character more noticeable than it really is, or the skill of doing this
Usage examples:
[ c ] i saw a wonderful caricature of the president in the newspaper., it’s so easy to caricature p…

Caricature - all meanings in English

imitate

ˈɪm.ɪ.teɪt

verb
Take or follow as a model.
Usage examples:
His style was imitated by many other writers

verb
Reproduce someone's behavior or looks

verb
To copy someone’s speech or behavior, or to copy something as a model
Usage examples:
My four-year-old daughter is always trying to imitate her older sister., he imitated her accent per…

Imitate - all meanings in English

lampoon

læmˈpuːn

verb
Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.
Usage examples:
The actor was lampooned by the press

noun
A speech or text lampooning someone or something.
Usage examples:
The magazine fired at god, royalty, and politicians, using cartoons and lampoons

noun
A piece of writing, a drawing, etc. that criticizes a famous person or a public organization in a humorous way, allowing their or its bad qualities to be seen and making them or it seem stupid
Usage examples:
The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons., many celebrities are lampooned on this…

Lampoon - all meanings in English

mimic

verb
Imitate (someone or their actions or words), especially in order to entertain or ridicule.
Usage examples:
She mimicked eileen's pedantic voice

noun
A person skilled in imitating the voice or actions of others in an entertaining way.
Usage examples:
He has great ability as a mimic

adjective
Imitative of something.
Usage examples:
They were waging mimic war

Mimic - all meanings in English

mock

verb
Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.
Usage examples:
Opposition mps mocked the government's decision

adjective
Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.
Usage examples:
A mock-georgian red brick house

noun
Make a replica or imitation of something.

Mock - all meanings in English

parody

noun
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Usage examples:
The film is a parody of the horror genre

verb
Produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre).
Usage examples:
His speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction

noun
A piece of writing or music that copies the style of a serious piece in a way that is intentionally humorous
Usage examples:
[ c ] brando did a parody of the character he played in "the godfather.", downey started the show b…

Parody - all meanings in English

satirize

verb
Deride and criticize by means of satire.
Usage examples:
The movie satirized the notion of national superiority

Satirize - all meanings in English

travesty

noun
A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.
Usage examples:
The absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of justice

verb
Represent in a false, absurd, or distorted way.
Usage examples:
Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays

noun
Something that completely fails to do what it is intended or expected to do, and therefore seems ridiculous
Usage examples:
The police chief called the judge’s ruling a travesty of justice.

Travesty - all meanings in English

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