Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mimic
IPA transcription: [m'ɪmɪk]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mimic
    Meaning: constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mimic, mimicker
    Meaning: someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mimic, mime
    Meaning: imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately"
Usage examples
  • "It is, Kitty; only not to mimic.
  • Mimic Adonis gardens were cultivated by women.
  • But she never could summon up sufficient nerve to be rude to so awful a mimic. . . .
  • When we had reassembled and were indulging in our mimic dance, Little Wound was not allowed to dance.
  • After that all he does is to sing over the snake and the mimic rainbow; sooner or later the rain will fall.
  • The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of--as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy--going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,--is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.