look-alike

noun

ˈlu̇k-ə-ˌlīk 

: one that looks like another : double

look-alike adjective

Synonyms

• alter ego
• carbon
• carbon copy
• clone
• counterpart
• doppelgänger
• doppelganger
• double
• duplicate
• duplication
• facsimile
• fetch
• image
• likeness
• match
• mirror image
• picture
• replica
• ringer
• spit
• spitting image
• twin

Examples of look-alike in a Sentence

at first glance these two mattresses may be look-alikes, but a comparison of their innards tells a different story

Recent Examples on the Web

The shoes have close to 12,000 five-star ratings on Amazon, proving lots of shoppers have tried and fallen in love with these cozy Birkenstock look-alikes. —Terri Peters, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2024

But if true art is an instrument for transcendence and cognitive freedom, then artifice—art’s look-alike—is a homogenizing force that blocks off possibilities and alternate modes of being. —John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

Open software repositories have long faced issues with malicious look-alike uploads, including the PyPI index for Python programming. —Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2024

Jeannette Charles, who transformed a portrait rejected by a royal art show into a career as a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike in movies and on television, died on Tuesday in Great Baddow, England. —Sam Roberts, New York Times, 7 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above