Dictionary Definition
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, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic] [ant:
nonechoic]
3 not genuine; imitating something superior;
"counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of
art"; "a counterfeit prince" [syn: counterfeit] [ant: genuine]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Imitating; copying; not original.
- Modelled after another thing.
Translations
imitating, not original
modelled after another thing
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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