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Resemble vs Lookalike - What's the difference?

resemble | lookalike |

As a verb resemble

is   To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

As a noun lookalike is

someone who physically resembles (looks like) someone else.

resemble

English

Verb

  • (transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We will resemble you in that.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • * 2005 , .
  • But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
    The twins resemble each other.
  • To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
  • (obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.
  • * Holland
  • They can so well resemble man's speech.
  • (obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
  • Synonyms

    * mirror * duplicate * look like

    lookalike

    English

    Alternative forms

    * look-alike

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who physically resembles (looks like) someone else.
  • The cousins were such close lookalikes they could impersonate each other, and sometimes did.