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IMITATIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not genuine; imitating something superior
Example:
a counterfeit prince
Synonyms:
counterfeit; imitative
Classified under:
Similar:
synthetic (not genuine or natural)
pseudo ((often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of)
pinchbeck (serving as an imitation or substitute)
ostensible; ostensive (represented or appearing as such; pretended)
mock (constituting a copy or imitation of something)
inauthentic; spurious; unauthentic (false or fake; not what it appears to be)
bastard; bogus; fake; phoney; phony (fraudulent; having a misleading appearance)
base (debased; not genuine)
bad; forged (reproduced fraudulently)
assumed; false; fictitious; fictive; pretended; put on; sham (adopted in order to deceive)
Also:
artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
insincere (lacking sincerity)
false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)
Derivation:
imitate (make a reproduction or copy of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by or given to imitation
Example:
man is an imitative being
Classified under:
Similar:
apelike; apish (being or given to servile imitation)
mimetic (exhibiting mimicry)
mimic (constituting an imitation)
parrotlike (mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding)
simulated (reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character)
Antonym:
nonimitative (not marked by or given to imitation)
Derivation:
imitate (reproduce someone's behavior or looks)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
Example:
it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term
Synonyms:
echoic; imitative; onomatopoeic; onomatopoeical; onomatopoetic
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