impersonating

The word “impersonating” has 5 syllables: im-per-son-at-ing

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈpɜːr.sə.neɪ.tɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for impersonating?

In the thesaurus, “impersonating” has 37 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for impersonating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for impersonating

  • acting
  • acting out
  • aping
  • clowning
  • co-acting
  • co-starring
  • coacting
  • copying
  • costarring
  • depicting
  • doing
  • dramatizing
  • enacting
  • hamming
  • imitating
  • interpreting
  • masquerading
  • mimicking
  • miming
  • mocking
  • monkeying
  • overacting
  • overplaying
  • pantomiming
  • parodying
  • performing
  • personating
  • playacting
  • playing
  • portraying
  • rendering
  • representing
  • role-playing
  • roleplaying
  • taking on
  • travestying
  • underplaying

Meanings of impersonating

  • verb
    1. To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of.
    2. To operate with the permissions of a different user account.
    3. To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.

Example Sentences

  • She was caught impersonating a police officer during the robbery.
  • The actor is known for impersonating famous celebrities on his YouTube channel.
  • He spent the evening impersonating a historical figure at the costume party.
  • The thief was impersonating a technician to gain access to the building's security system.
  • She was impersonating a famous singer for her audition, impressing the judges with her talent.

On this page you'll find 37 synonyms or another words to impersonating, such as: acting, acting out, aping, clowning, co-acting, co-starring, coacting.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

faking

  • act
  • acting
  • ad-libbing
  • adulterating
  • affectation
  • affecting
  • appearance
  • artifice
  • assuming
  • beard
  • blind
  • bluffing
  • bogus
  • camouflage
  • camouflaging
  • carbon
  • carbon copy
  • charade
  • cheat
  • claim
  • cloak
  • coining
  • color
  • coloring
  • concealing
  • concealment
  • concocting
  • contriving
  • copy
  • costume
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • cover
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cribbing
  • deceit
  • deception
  • deceptive marking
  • dekeing
  • devising
  • disguise
  • disguising
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • dissimulation
  • doctoring
  • dodging
  • double-dealing
  • dress
  • dumb act
  • duplicating
  • evading
  • evasion
  • excuse
  • extemporizing
  • fabricating
  • fabrication
  • facade
  • face
  • fake
  • fakery
  • faking out
  • false appearance
  • false front
  • falsification
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fig leaf
  • forging
  • fraudulence
  • front
  • fudging
  • gag
  • getup
  • guise
  • hatching
  • illusion
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • impersonating
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • improvising
  • insincerity
  • inventing
  • invention
  • juggling
  • juking
  • letting on
  • lookalike
  • make believe
  • making believe
  • making up
  • malingering
  • manipulating
  • manufacturing
  • mask
  • masking
  • masquerade
  • masquerading
  • mimicry
  • misrepresentation
  • misstatement
  • ostentation
  • pageant
  • paint
  • pen name
  • phony
  • phonying
  • plagiarizing
  • plain brown wrapper
  • playacting
  • playing
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • pretext
  • professing
  • protective coloring
  • pseudo
  • pseudonym
  • pump-faking
  • put on
  • putting on
  • red herring
  • reduplicating
  • replicating
  • reproducing
  • routine
  • ruse
  • schtick
  • screen
  • semblance
  • shade
  • sham
  • shamming
  • shroud
  • shuffling
  • sidestepping
  • simulating
  • simulation
  • slipping
  • smokescreen
  • stall
  • stunt
  • stutter-stepping
  • subterfuge
  • trickery
  • twin
  • veil
  • veneer
  • wile
  • workalike

hamming

  • acting
  • acting out
  • aping
  • assuming
  • characterization
  • clowning
  • co-acting
  • co-starring
  • coacting
  • costarring
  • depicting
  • depiction
  • doing
  • dramatics
  • dramatizing
  • enacting
  • enactment
  • feigning
  • histrionics
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • impersonating
  • impersonation
  • improvisation
  • interpreting
  • masquerading
  • mime
  • mimicking
  • mimicry
  • miming
  • overacting
  • overplaying
  • pantomime
  • pantomiming
  • performance
  • performing
  • play acting
  • playacting
  • playing
  • portrayal
  • portraying
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • putting
  • rendering
  • rendition
  • representing
  • role-playing
  • roleplaying
  • seeming
  • showing off
  • simulating
  • stagecraft
  • stooging
  • taking on
  • theatre
  • theatricals
  • underplaying

lampooning

  • abusive
  • acerbity
  • acidity
  • acridity
  • acrimony
  • acting
  • amplifying
  • aping
  • aspersion
  • banter
  • bantering
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bitterness
  • burlesque
  • burlesquing
  • caricaturing
  • caustic
  • causticity
  • causticness
  • censorious
  • censure
  • chaffing
  • comeback
  • contempt
  • copycatting
  • corrosiveness
  • counterfeiting
  • criticism
  • cut
  • cutting
  • cynical
  • cynicism
  • deriding
  • derision
  • dig
  • disparagement
  • dissembling
  • doing
  • duplicating
  • elaborating
  • embellishing
  • embroidering
  • emulating
  • enhancing
  • exaggerating
  • expanding
  • faking
  • farcical
  • feigning
  • flouting
  • gibing
  • imitating
  • impersonating
  • incisive
  • invective
  • ironical
  • irony
  • jibing
  • magnifying
  • mimicking
  • miming
  • mockery
  • mocking
  • monkeying
  • mordacity
  • mordancy
  • mordant
  • overdrawing
  • overstating
  • padding
  • pantomiming
  • paradoxical
  • parodying
  • parroting
  • pasquinading
  • performing
  • personating
  • playing
  • playing up
  • pretending
  • pungent
  • put down
  • putting on
  • raillery
  • rancor
  • replicating
  • reproducing
  • ridicule
  • ridiculing
  • sarcastic
  • sardonic
  • satire
  • satiric
  • satirizing
  • scoffing
  • scorn
  • sending up
  • shamming
  • sharpness
  • simulating
  • sneering
  • spoofing
  • stretching
  • superciliousness
  • taunting
  • travestying
  • trenchancy
  • wisecrack

quitting

camouflaging

  • acting
  • affecting
  • assuming
  • blanketing
  • blotting out
  • cloaking
  • concealing
  • cosmeticizing
  • counterfeiting
  • covering
  • curtaining
  • disguising
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • dressing up
  • enshrouding
  • faking
  • feigning
  • gilding
  • hiding
  • impersonating
  • masking
  • masquerading
  • obscuring
  • occulting
  • playing
  • posing
  • pretending
  • screening
  • shamming
  • shrouding
  • simulating
  • varnishing
  • veiling
  • whitewashing

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