Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to copy
Participle: copied
Gerund: copying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | copy |
| you | copy |
| he;she;it | copies |
| we | copy |
| you | copy |
| they | copy |
Perfect
| I | have copied |
| you | have copied |
| he;she;it | has copied |
| we | have copied |
| you | have copied |
| they | have copied |
Past
| I | copied |
| you | copied |
| he;she;it | copied |
| we | copied |
| you | copied |
| they | copied |
Pluperfect
| I | had copied |
| you | had copied |
| he;she;it | had copied |
| we | had copied |
| you | had copied |
| they | had copied |
Future
| I | will copy |
| you | will copy |
| he;she;it | will copy |
| we | will copy |
| you | will copy |
| they | will copy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have copied |
| you | will have copied |
| he;she;it | will have copied |
| we | will have copied |
| you | will have copied |
| they | will have copied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | copy |
| you | copy |
| he;she;it | copy |
| we | copy |
| you | copy |
| they | copy |
Perfect
| I | have copied |
| you | have copied |
| he;she;it | have copied |
| we | have copied |
| you | have copied |
| they | have copied |
Imperfect
| I | copied |
| you | copied |
| he;she;it | copied |
| we | copied |
| you | copied |
| they | copied |
Pluperfect
| I | had copied |
| you | had copied |
| he;she;it | had copied |
| we | had copied |
| you | had copied |
| they | had copied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would copy |
| you | would copy |
| he;she;it | would copy |
| we | would copy |
| you | would copy |
| they | would copy |
Perfect
| I | would have copied |
| you | would have copied |
| he;she;it | would have copied |
| we | would have copied |
| you | would have copied |
| they | would have copied |
Imperative
| you | copy |
| we | Let's copy |
| you | copy |
Verbs conjugated like 'copy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'copy'
cop,
copay,
cope,
cosy,
coy,
cozy,
mopy,
acoy,
body,
bop,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to use as a model or pattern
- ape, ditto, emulate, imitate, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, parallel, reproduce, simulate
- to produce an object identical to a given object
- clone, facsimile, replicate, reproduce
- imitate
- reproduce, engross, duplicate, mimic, reduplicate, trace, manifold, ape
- illustrate
- embody, epitomize, typify, personify, prefigure, model
- reproduce
- represent, paraphrase, counterfeit, forge, cartoon, delineate, depict, portray
Antonyms
- to produce an object identical to a given object
- miscopy
- imitate
- misrepresent, distort, modify, vary
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1330, from O.Fr.
copie, from M.L.
copia "reproduction, transcript," from L.
copia "plenty, means" (see copious). Originally "written transcript," sense extended 15c. to any specimen of writing (especially MS for a printer) and any reproduction or imitation. The verb, in the figurative sense of "to imitate" is attested from 1647.
Copyright is 1735.
Copycat is attested from 1896, but may be 40 or 50 years older.
2. Etymology tree
3. Latin cōpiō
4. Old French copierbor.
5. Middle English copien
6. English copy
7. From Middle English copien, from Old French copier and Medieval Latin cōpiō. See: Middle English '
copien'.
Verbs referencing "copy"
Polish
kopiować, Chinese, Mandarin
拷貝, Welsh
copïo, Thai
ก๊อป.
Sample Sentences
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[...] all kinds of caters of fish, or flesh, or fowl, in these latitudes, the swallowers of oysters alone are not gregarious; but subduing themselves, as it were, to the nature of what they work in, and copying the coyness of the thing they eat, do sit apart in curtained boxes, and consort by twos, not by two hundreds.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ There, ” he said to Miss Ophelia, “ this was one of my mother's books,—and here is her handwriting,—come and look at it. She copied and arranged this from Mozart's Requiem. ” Miss Ophelia came accordingly.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[ 1 ] This poem does not appear in the collected works of William Cullen Bryant, nor in the collected poems of his brother, John Howard Bryant. It was probably copied from a newspaper or magazine. ~~~ The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)