impersonate

Verb

Meaning

To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.

To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pose portray personate ditto mime lampoon play act ape perform represent affect copy assume depict
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Antonyms

differ oppose come forward be exposed to be original give a name
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Hypernyms

play act represent mock betray deceive

Hyponyms

masquerade

Derivatives

impersonated impersonating

Examples

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield

Some kids can play the piano or kick a football; I could just impersonate everyone. Tracey Ullman

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them. Tracey Ullman

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. Tracey Ullman

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. Robert Morgan

What Machiavelli did not write but what the association between political systems and citizens' mental software suggests is that which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are. Geert Hofstede

Close letter words and terms

impersonalize impersonally impersonalness impersonation impersonator impersonatress