: one that looks like another : double
look-alike adjective

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
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Gigi Santo Pietro: Vanna White pays tribute to look-alike daughter with birthday throwback The mother-daughter pair giggled as White sat down to have the tattoo done. Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025 Photos of Timothée kissing Gwyneth Paltrow leak from the set of Marty Supreme. October 27, 2024: Timothée stops by his own look-alike contest. Zoë Haylock, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025 As branching coral look-alikes, the cuttlefish splayed out their arms and displayed dark mottles to blend in with staghorn coral. Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025 Ironically, its only real payoff is its surreal magnitude of Drake-centricity (down to casting a look-alike), which largely ends up being absurd and hilarious thanks to events entirely outside of the film’s purview. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for look-alike

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of look-alike was in 1935

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“Look-alike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look-alike. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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