impersonated
Pretended being someone
Impersonated is the past tense of impersonate, meaning to pretend to be someone else.
The impersonation may be for entertainment—a comedian impersonating a celebrity—or for deception: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
The word implies deliberate assumption of another's identity, manner, or appearance.
Dishonest money-making scheme
- conArgument against
- swindleDeception for financial gain
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
- catfishBarbeled freshwater bottom-feeder
charlatan · grift · forgery · embezzlement · trickery · dupery · flimflam · bunco
Temporarily holding position
- theatreArt of staged performance
- stageRaised performance platform
- mimicryAdaptive resemblance to another
- impressionEffect on the mind
caricature · parody · satire · sketch · comedy · SNL · standup · drag
Deceptive act or costume party
- charadeAbsurd or obvious pretense
- pretenseDeceptive outward show
- camouflageConcealment through visual blending
- costumeClothing for portrayal
makeup · wig · prosthetics · guise · facade · concealment · cover · transformation
scam
Dishonest money-making scheme
catfish · charlatan · grift · forgery · embezzlement · trickery · dupery · flimflam · bunco · falsification
acting
Temporarily holding position
- theatreArt of staged performance
- stageRaised performance platform
- mimicryAdaptive resemblance to another
impression · caricature · parody · satire · sketch · comedy · SNL · standup · drag · character
masquerade
Deceptive act or costume party
- charadeAbsurd or obvious pretense
- pretenseDeceptive outward show
- camouflageConcealment through visual blending
costume · makeup · wig · prosthetics · guise · facade · concealment · cover · transformation · getup
imitate
Reproduce another's behavior
parrot · echo · mirror · copycat · mock · mimic · voice · mannerisms · gestures · accent
avatar
Digital user representation
- aliasAdopted false name
- sockpuppetFake identity for deception
- usernameAccount identification string
handle · profile · deepfake · bot · catfishing · hacked · spoofed · burner · troll · astroturfing
- actedportrayed, performed, pretended, mimicked, dramatized
- copiedcopied, duplicated, replicated, reproduced, cloned
- humiliationashamed, abasement, embarrassed, chagrin, mortified
- Elvis impersonatorsPerformers mimicking the King
- female impersonatorMale performing as woman
- celebrity impersonationMimicking a famous person
- male impersonatorWoman portraying men onstage
- online impersonation
- voter impersonationFraudulently voting as another
impersonate, impersonator, impersonation, impersonating, impersonations, impersonators, impersonates