About The Word Imitative
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Imitative
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What's The Definition Of Imitative?
[adj] not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
[adj] marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being" [adj] (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer Synonyms | Synonyms for Imitative: apelike | apish | assumed | bad | base | bastard | bogus | counterfeit | echoic | fake | false | fictitious | fictive | forged | inauthentic | mimetic | mimic | mock | onomatopoeic | onomatopoeical | onomatopoetic | ostensible | ostensive | parrotlike | phoney | phony | pinchbeck | pretended | pseudo | put on | sham | simulated | spurious | synthetic | unauthentic Related Terms | Find terms related to Imitative: apish | battological | delineatory | depictive | duplicative | echoic | echoing | embodying | emulative | figurative | graphic | ideographic | illustrational | illustrative | incarnating | iterative | limning | mimetic | mimic | mimish | onomatopoeic | onomatopoetic | parrotlike | personifying | pictographic | pictorial | portraying | recapitulative | redundant | reduplicative | reechoing | reiterant | reiterative | repeating | repetitional | repetitive | representational | representative | representing | simulative | symbolizing | tautological | tautologous | typifying | vivid See Also | artificial | insincere | unreal Imitative In Webster's Dictionary \Im"i*ta*tive\, a. [L. imitavitus: cf. F. imitatif.]
1. Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating;
exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a
pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as,
man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art.
2. Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
This temple, less in form, with equal grace, Was
imitative of the first in Thrace. --Dryden.
3. (Nat. Hist.) Designed to imitate another species of
animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful
purpose, such as protection from enemies; having
resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors;
imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of
minerals are imitative. -- {Im"i*ta*tive*ly}, adv. --
{Im"i*ta*tive*ness}, n.
\Im"i*ta*tive\, n. (Gram.) A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance. [R.] |
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