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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
imitative
adj 1: marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative
art"; "man is an imitative being" [ant: nonimitative]
2: (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 [syn: echoic,
imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical,
onomatopoetic] [ant: nonechoic]
3: not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit
emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a
counterfeit prince" [syn: counterfeit, imitative] [ant:
echt, genuine]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Imitative \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.
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2. Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
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This temple, less in form, with equal grace,
Was imitative of the first in Thrace. --Dryden.
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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
resemblance 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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Imitative \Im"i*ta*tive\, n. (Gram.)
A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance. [R.]
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Thesaurus Results for imitative:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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