Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or involving imitation.
- adjective Not original; derivative.
- adjective Tending to imitate.
- adjective Onomatopoeic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imitating or inclined to imitate or copy.
- Aiming at imitation; exhibiting or designed to exhibit an imitation of a pattern or model.
- Formed after or presenting a similitude of a model, pattern, or original.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original
- adjective Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
- adjective (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
- noun (Gram.), rare A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Imitating; copying; not original.
- adjective Modelled after another thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by or given to imitation
- adjective (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
- adjective not genuine; imitating something superior
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Examples
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He was even vexed at what I translated by the term imitative harmony.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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“Let's designate this to be what we call the imitative art [mimêtikon]”; everything else in the large genus can go by some other name (267a).
Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008
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“calloo-calloo” — a mimetic term imitative of the most frequent notes of the bird.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- to s...
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Paleoglot: The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze"
The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze" 2008
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- to s...
The trouble with the PIE 1st & 2nd person plural endings 2008
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze"
The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze" 2008
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- to s...
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- to s...
The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze" 2008
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- to s...
Youth Without Youth 2008
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