mimic

Meanings

Verb

• To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
• To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

Noun

• A person who practices mimicry; especially:
• An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
• An imitation.

Adjective

• Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
• Mock, pretended.
• Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

Related

Similar words

• mimicker

Origin

• From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός, from μῖμος; see mime.