Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ditto
Participle: dittoed
Gerund: dittoing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ditto |
| you | ditto |
| he;she;it | dittos |
| we | ditto |
| you | ditto |
| they | ditto |
Perfect
| I | have dittoed |
| you | have dittoed |
| he;she;it | has dittoed |
| we | have dittoed |
| you | have dittoed |
| they | have dittoed |
Past
| I | dittoed |
| you | dittoed |
| he;she;it | dittoed |
| we | dittoed |
| you | dittoed |
| they | dittoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dittoed |
| you | had dittoed |
| he;she;it | had dittoed |
| we | had dittoed |
| you | had dittoed |
| they | had dittoed |
Future
| I | will ditto |
| you | will ditto |
| he;she;it | will ditto |
| we | will ditto |
| you | will ditto |
| they | will ditto |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dittoed |
| you | will have dittoed |
| he;she;it | will have dittoed |
| we | will have dittoed |
| you | will have dittoed |
| they | will have dittoed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ditto |
| you | ditto |
| he;she;it | ditto |
| we | ditto |
| you | ditto |
| they | ditto |
Perfect
| I | have dittoed |
| you | have dittoed |
| he;she;it | have dittoed |
| we | have dittoed |
| you | have dittoed |
| they | have dittoed |
Imperfect
| I | dittoed |
| you | dittoed |
| he;she;it | dittoed |
| we | dittoed |
| you | dittoed |
| they | dittoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dittoed |
| you | had dittoed |
| he;she;it | had dittoed |
| we | had dittoed |
| you | had dittoed |
| they | had dittoed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ditto |
| you | would ditto |
| he;she;it | would ditto |
| we | would ditto |
| you | would ditto |
| they | would ditto |
Perfect
| I | would have dittoed |
| you | would have dittoed |
| he;she;it | would have dittoed |
| we | would have dittoed |
| you | would have dittoed |
| they | would have dittoed |
Imperative
| you | ditto |
| we | Let's ditto |
| you | ditto |
Verbs conjugated like 'ditto'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ditto'
ditty,
bitt,
diet,
dildo,
dint,
dirt,
dirty,
disco,
dit,
ditch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to use as a model or pattern
- ape, copy, emulate, imitate, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, parallel, reproduce, simulate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say, to speak”). Not related to English dittography.
2. The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, a genericization from the brand name of a spirit duplicator. See: Latin '
dīcō'.
Sample Sentences
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The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police. [1989, K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala:]
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But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee. [1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 55:]
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I was going to join a commune of my friends. I sort of issued a declaration of independence which I dittoed up and put in everybody's mail box in the department. [1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, in Gay Community News, page 8:]