Imitative

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Imitative \Im"i*ta*tive\, n. (Gram.)
     A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance. [R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "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