Word.ws English Dictionary

look-alike

look-alike is the alternative form of lookalike.

Meaning of lookalike

Noun

lookalike (plural lookalikes)

  1. A doppelganger, impersonator, imposter, or body double.
    • The cousins were such close lookalikes they could impersonate each other, and sometimes did.
  2. (Canada, US) Something that looks very similar to or the same as the genuine article.
    • Among competing products, a generic substitute is one thing, whereas a deceptive lookalike is another.

Forms of look-alike

plurallook-alikes

Questions about look-alike

What is look-alike the alternative form of?
Look-alike is the alternative form of lookalike.

Words near look-alike in the dictionary

  1. look who's talking
  2. look you
  3. look'd
  4. look'st
  5. look-a-like
  6. look-alike
  7. look-alikes
  8. look-at-me
  9. look-back
  10. look-backs
  11. look-down shoot-down

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: look-alike (page history and authors); lookalike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-look-alike.wav.

Cite this entry: “look-alike.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/look-alike. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.