Synonyms for ape
eɪpape

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1. apeverb

   Synonyms:
   mimic, imitate, simulate, personate, represent

   Antonyms:
   not to imitate, vary, modify, change

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apenoun

   any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

   Synonyms:
   copycat, anthropoid, emulator, aper, imitator

2. copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, apernoun

   someone who copies the words or behavior of another

   Synonyms:
   impersonator, anthropoid, emulator, aper, copycat, imitator

3. anthropoid, apeverb

   person who resembles a nonhuman primate

   Synonyms:
   copycat, anthropoid, emulator, aper, imitator

4. apeverb

   imitate uncritically and in every aspect

   "Her little brother apes her behavior"

   Synonyms:
   caricature

5. caricature, apeverb

   represent in or produce a caricature of

   "The drawing caricatured the President"

   Synonyms:
   caricature

Matched Categories

1. • Imitate
   • Mock
   • Primate

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apenoun

   Synonyms:
   monkey (without a tail)

2. apeverb

   Synonyms:
   mimic, imitate, mock, counterfeit, take off

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1. apenoun

   Synonyms:
   simian, pongo, gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, baboon, troglodyte

   Associated words:
   simian, simial, pithecoid, pithecan

2. apeverb

   Synonyms:
   imitate, mimic

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1. List of paraphrases for "ape":

   monkey, gorilla, apes, chimp, epas, monkeys, epa, primate, peap, goon, chimpanzee

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. APE

   Synonyms:
   Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease, redox factor-1, Ref-1

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How to use ape in a sentence?

1. Simone Pika:

   We have regularly observed both species interacting peacefully in foraging trees. Our colleagues from Congo even witnessed playful interactions between the two great ape species.

2. CREW*31:

   Without his ships man is just a common ape.

3. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859:

   He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

4. Tobias Deschner:

   It could be that sharing of food resources by chimpanzees, gorillas and forest elephants in Loango National Park in Gabon result in increased competition and sometimes even in lethal interactions between the two great ape species.

5. The Australian:

   The Council considers that the cartoon uses exaggeration and absurdity to make its point, but accepts the publisher's claim that it does not depict Ms. Williams as an ape, rather showing her as 'spitting the dummy'.