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mimick

mimick is the obsolete spelling of mimic.

Meaning of mimic

Noun

mimic (plural mimics)

  1. A mime.
  2. A comic who does impressions.
    Synonyms:
    impressionist
  3. An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
  4. An imitation.
    • Jess jumped slightly at hearing Tillyʼs extremely accurate mimic of her voice.2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 190
  5. (roleplaying games) A fictional monster able to disguise itself as an inanimate object, commonly a treasure chest, often with the intent of luring adventurers into a trap.

See all 10 meanings of mimic

Forms of mimick

Noun
pluralmimicks
Verb
third-person singular presentmimicks
present participlemimicking
past participlemimicked
pastmimicked

Words formed from mimick

Questions about mimick

What is mimick the obsolete spelling of?
Mimick is the obsolete spelling of mimic.

Words near mimick in the dictionary

  1. mimicability
  2. mimicable
  3. mimical
  4. mimically
  5. mimicism
  6. mimick
  7. mimickability
  8. mimickable
  9. mimicked
  10. mimickee
  11. mimickees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mimick (page history and authors); mimic (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.

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