ape

1. 1.

   imitate uncritically and in every aspect

   “Her little brother apes her behavior”

   Broaderimitate
2. 2.

   represent in or produce a caricature of

   “The drawing caricatured the President”

   Synonymscaricature

   Broadermock

Other forms of ape

plural

apes·

past tense

aped·

present participle

aping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ape

What does ape mean?

ape means "any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ape?

ape has 1 syllable: ape. In IPA it is /ˈeɪp/.

What is another word for ape?

Close synonyms include copycat, imitator, emulator, aper, anthropoid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ape a common word?

ape is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.