alter ego

Speech parts

1. alter ego - Noun

2. alter ego - Phrase

Meaning

a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

alter-ego

Synonyms

comrade pal buddy chum equal brother equivalent friend sister partner fellow familiar shadow ally associate

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Antonyms

nemesis competition enemy opposition opposite reverse

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Hypernyms

friend

Related terms

alteregoism alter-egotism

Examples

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. Chris Brown

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way. Lindy Booth

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego. Bobby Fischer

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway. David Bowie

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny. Candace Bushnell

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. Richard Dawkins

Words in the phrase

alter ego

Close letter words and terms

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