mime

1. 1.

   imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect

   “The actor mimicked the President very accurately”

   Synonymsmimic

   Broaderimitate
2. 2.

   act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only

   “The acting students mimed eating an apple”

   Synonymspantomime

   Broaderact

Other forms of mime

plural

mimes·

past tense

mimed·

present participle

miming·

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 mime

What does mime mean?

mime means "an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mime?

mime has 1 syllable: mime. In IPA it is /ˈmaɪm/.

What is another word for mime?

Close synonyms include mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist, pantomime. 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 mime a common word?

mime is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mime?

1 word rhymes with mime. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.