impersonation

The word “impersonation” has 5 syllables: im-per-so-na-tion

It's pronounced as /ɪmˌpɜːr.səˈneɪ.ʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for impersonation?

In the thesaurus, “impersonation” has 49 synonyms and 14 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for impersonation along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for impersonation

  • act
  • acting
  • affectation
  • airs
  • appearance
  • betrayal
  • camouflage
  • charade
  • cloak
  • color
  • deceit
  • deception
  • disguise
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double cross
  • double-dealing
  • duplicity
  • enactment
  • excuse
  • facade
  • faithlessness
  • fakery
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • fraud
  • front
  • gloss
  • guile
  • guise
  • image
  • infidelity
  • masquerade
  • perfidy
  • performance
  • persona
  • playacting
  • portrayal
  • pose
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • put-on
  • role
  • semblance
  • show
  • treachery
  • treason
  • unfaithfulness

Antonyms for impersonation

  • artlessness
  • bluntness
  • candidness
  • candor
  • directness
  • forthrightness
  • frankness
  • genuineness
  • naivete
  • openheartedness
  • outspokenness
  • plainspokenness
  • sincerity
  • straightforwardness

Meanings of impersonation

  • noun
    1. The act of impersonating.

Example Sentences

  • His impersonation of the president had everyone laughing.
  • The actor's impersonation of the famous singer was incredibly accurate.
  • She was arrested for the impersonation of a government official.
  • Impersonation in the comedy show included both politicians and celebrities.
  • The impersonation of historical figures was a key part of the play’s appeal.

On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to impersonation, such as: act, acting, affectation, airs, appearance, artlessness, betrayal.

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

Related Words

facade

  • act
  • affectation
  • airs
  • appearance
  • beard
  • betrayal
  • bluff
  • building front
  • camouflage
  • charade
  • cloak
  • color
  • coloring
  • cotton candy
  • cover
  • deceit
  • deception
  • disguise
  • disguisement
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double cross
  • double-dealing
  • duplicity
  • excuse
  • exterior
  • face
  • faithlessness
  • fake
  • fakery
  • false colors
  • false front
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • fig leaf
  • fluff
  • forehead
  • forepart
  • fraud
  • front
  • front view
  • frontage
  • frontispiece
  • gloss
  • guile
  • guise
  • image
  • impersonation
  • infidelity
  • look
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • outside
  • perfidy
  • performance
  • persona
  • phony
  • playacting
  • portrayal
  • pose
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • put on
  • put-on
  • semblance
  • show
  • skin
  • surface
  • tinsel
  • treachery
  • treason
  • unfaithfulness
  • veil
  • veneer
  • window dressing
  • window-dressing

echoing

  • Xerox
  • agreeable
  • alveolate
  • apery
  • aping
  • appealing
  • articulating
  • barrage
  • beating
  • blending
  • boom
  • booming
  • broad
  • cadenced
  • canorous
  • carbon copy
  • cavernous
  • ceaseless
  • chambered
  • chasmal
  • chattering
  • chiming
  • chordal
  • clangor
  • clangorous
  • clone
  • commodious
  • concave
  • consonant
  • continuous
  • conversing
  • copy
  • copycatting
  • copying
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • counterpart
  • curved inward
  • deep
  • deep-set
  • deep-toned
  • discussing
  • ditto
  • dittoing
  • drone
  • drumbeat
  • drumming
  • dulcet
  • dull
  • dupe
  • duplicate
  • duplicating
  • duplication
  • earsplitting
  • electrifying
  • eloquent
  • emphatic
  • emulating
  • enhanced
  • enunciating
  • ersatz
  • euphonic
  • euphonious
  • expressing
  • fake
  • flat
  • flowing
  • following
  • forceful
  • forgery
  • full
  • gaping
  • ghostly
  • grumble
  • harmonic
  • harmonious
  • harmonizing
  • heightened
  • homophonic
  • huge
  • image
  • imitating
  • impersonation
  • impression
  • intensified
  • likeness
  • lilting
  • loud
  • low
  • lyric
  • lyrical
  • match
  • matching
  • mellifluent
  • mellifluous
  • mellow
  • melodic
  • melodious
  • mime
  • mimesis
  • mimicking
  • mimicry
  • miming
  • mirroring
  • mockery
  • mouthing
  • muffled
  • musical
  • mute
  • muted
  • noisy
  • orating
  • orchestral
  • orotund
  • parallel
  • paralleling
  • paraphrasing
  • parody
  • parroting
  • patterning
  • perpetual
  • phony
  • picture
  • plangent
  • pleasant
  • polyphonic
  • polyphonous
  • powerful
  • profound
  • pronouncing
  • pulsating
  • pulsing
  • quaver
  • quavering
  • quoting
  • racket
  • ranting
  • rat-a-tat
  • reduplicating
  • reechoing
  • reflecting
  • reflection
  • reiterative
  • repeating
  • repetitious
  • replica
  • representing
  • reproducing
  • reproduction
  • resemblance
  • resonance
  • resonant
  • resonating
  • resounding
  • reverberant
  • reverberating
  • rhythmic
  • rhythmical
  • rich
  • ringer
  • ringing
  • roar
  • roaring
  • rolling
  • roomy
  • rotund
  • round
  • rumble
  • rumbling
  • semblance
  • sepulchral
  • sham
  • simulacrum
  • socketed
  • songful
  • songlike
  • sonorant
  • sonorous
  • sounding
  • spacious
  • spouting
  • stentorian
  • strident
  • sunken
  • sweet
  • symphonic
  • symphonious
  • takeoff
  • thrilling
  • throbbing
  • thunder
  • thundering
  • thunderous
  • tonal
  • toneless
  • transcription
  • travesty
  • trilling
  • tuneful
  • vast
  • verbalizing
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  • vibrating
  • vocalizing
  • warbling
  • wide
  • yawning

take off

  • abandon
  • abate
  • abbreviate
  • abridge
  • abscond
  • adjourn
  • ape
  • ascend
  • ascent
  • bail
  • bail out
  • bear
  • beat it
  • become airborne
  • begone
  • blast off
  • blastoff
  • bleed
  • blow
  • book
  • break in
  • bug off
  • bug out
  • bugger off
  • burglarize
  • burgle
  • burlesque
  • caricature
  • cheat
  • chisel
  • clear off
  • clear out
  • clip
  • comedy
  • cozen
  • crop
  • curtail
  • cut
  • cut back
  • cut down
  • cut out
  • decamp
  • decrease
  • deduct
  • defraud
  • depart
  • desert
  • despoil
  • dig out
  • diminish
  • disappear
  • discount
  • disrobe
  • distortion
  • dock
  • doff
  • douse
  • downsize
  • dwindle
  • emigrate
  • escape
  • evacuate
  • exaggeration
  • exit
  • exploit
  • farce
  • flee
  • fleece
  • fly
  • forsake
  • get
  • get off
  • get out
  • go
  • go away
  • go off
  • go out
  • head
  • hightail
  • hit the road
  • hit the trail
  • hold up
  • humor
  • husk
  • hustle
  • imitate
  • imitation
  • impersonation
  • knock down
  • knock off
  • knock over
  • lampoon
  • launch
  • lessen
  • lift off
  • liftoff
  • light out
  • loot
  • lower
  • make
  • mimic
  • mimicking
  • mizzle
  • mockery
  • move
  • mug
  • mulct
  • pare
  • parody
  • part
  • peel off
  • pillage
  • pluck
  • plunder
  • prune
  • pull out
  • pull stakes
  • pull up stakes
  • push off
  • push on
  • put off
  • put-on
  • quit
  • ransack
  • ravish
  • reduce
  • remove
  • retire
  • retreat
  • retrench
  • rib
  • ridicule
  • rifle
  • rip off
  • rob
  • roll
  • rook
  • run along
  • run away
  • sack
  • satire
  • scarper
  • scat
  • scram
  • send up
  • send-up
  • set out
  • shed
  • shortchange
  • shorten
  • shove off
  • shrug off
  • sketch
  • skin
  • skip
  • slapstick
  • slash
  • soar
  • split
  • spoil
  • spoof
  • squeeze
  • squib
  • start
  • step out
  • stick
  • stick up
  • sting
  • strike out
  • strip
  • subtract
  • swindle
  • take a hike
  • take a powder
  • take a walk
  • take to the air
  • travesty
  • trim
  • truncate
  • undress
  • vacate
  • vamoose
  • walk out
  • whittle
  • withdraw

takeoff

  • abandon
  • abate
  • abbreviate
  • abridge
  • abscond
  • adjourn
  • ascent
  • bail
  • bail out
  • beat it
  • begone
  • blastoff
  • bleed
  • book
  • break in
  • bug off
  • bug out
  • bugger off
  • burglarize
  • burgle
  • burlesque
  • caricature
  • cartoon
  • cheat
  • chisel
  • clear off
  • clear out
  • climb
  • clip
  • comedy
  • cozen
  • crop
  • curtail
  • cut
  • cut back
  • cut down
  • cut out
  • decamp
  • decrease
  • deduct
  • defraud
  • depart
  • departure
  • desert
  • despoil
  • dig out
  • diminish
  • discount
  • disrobe
  • distortion
  • dock
  • doff
  • douse
  • downsize
  • dwindle
  • emigrate
  • escape
  • evacuate
  • exaggeration
  • exit
  • exploit
  • farce
  • flee
  • fleece
  • fly
  • forsake
  • get
  • get off
  • get out
  • go
  • go off
  • go out
  • hit the road
  • hold up
  • hop
  • humor
  • husk
  • hustle
  • imitation
  • impersonation
  • jump
  • knock down
  • knock off
  • knock over
  • lampoon
  • launch
  • lessen
  • liftoff
  • light out
  • loot
  • lower
  • mimicking
  • mizzle
  • mockery
  • mocking
  • move
  • mug
  • mulct
  • pare
  • parody
  • part
  • peel off
  • pillage
  • pluck
  • plunder
  • prune
  • pull out
  • pull stakes
  • pull up stakes
  • push off
  • push on
  • put off
  • put-on
  • quit
  • ransack
  • ravish
  • reduce
  • remove
  • retire
  • retreat
  • retrench
  • rib
  • ridicule
  • rifle
  • rip off
  • rise
  • rob
  • roll
  • rook
  • run along
  • run away
  • sack
  • satire
  • scarper
  • scat
  • scram
  • send-up
  • set out
  • shed
  • shortchange
  • shorten
  • shrug off
  • sketch
  • skin
  • skip
  • slapstick
  • slash
  • spoil
  • spoof
  • squeeze
  • squib
  • start
  • step out
  • stick
  • stick up
  • sting
  • strike out
  • strip
  • subtract
  • swindle
  • take a hike
  • take a powder
  • take a walk
  • travesty
  • trim
  • truncate
  • undress
  • upward flight
  • vacate
  • vamoose
  • walk out
  • whittle
  • withdraw

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

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