Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. That can be imitated: the imitable sounds of a bird.
- adj. Worthy of imitation: imitable behavior.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being imitated or copied.
- Worthy of imitation.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of being imitated or copied.
- adj. Worthy of imitation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being imitated or copied.
- adj. Worthy of imitation.
Etymologies
- Latin imitabilis. See imitate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“BS&P keeps a closer watch on kidvid, on the notion that what is called imitable behavior needs to be monitored.”
“- Making Anschluss with stupidity, the Alaska Senate candidate told a gathering late last week that the former communist state's approach to border security is imitable.”
“If Kolkka's caper was at least inventive, Rooney's clap has already proved imitable.”
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“The MFA writing system, with its mechanisms of circulating popularity and fashionableness, leans heavily on the easily imitable.”
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“Will they all, as Shivani suggests, "lean heavily on the easily imitable"?”
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“In his prime, he could play brilliantly in an imitable way even, at times, well enough to give himself the illusion of the omnipotence he craved to keep at bay the vulnerability he feared.”
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“At Johns Hopkins, Gregory Hager, a computer science professor who researches medical devices, is using the da Vinci Surgical System -- the only robot approved by the FDA to help perform minimally invasive surgery -- to deconstruct surgical procedures into measurable components and imitable parts.”
“All of these constituent personas make for an imitable template of the populist-authoritarian president, with the added charm, in Bush's case, of having had to transcend his patrician upbringing a more patrician background is hardly imaginable by self-creating the instinctive/demagogic character to which, he thinks, the military in particular responds ecstatically -- especially when he's sending them off to die in large numbers.”
“In the late 1950's there were few characters on TV bigger than SGT BILKO as played by the inimitable--or should that be VERY imitable--Phil Silvers!”
“Making Anschluss with stupidity, the Alaska Senate candidate told a gathering late last week that the former communist state's approach to border security is imitable.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘imitable’.
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Deprefixed words
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clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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sugary, amalgam, zaftig, incommensurability, isomorphism, fold, awesome, cute, hack, dichotomy, pyrrhic, bifurcate and 89 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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fallible, palpable, irascible, suasible, persuasible, commendable, admirable, dissoluble, habitable, imitable, tolerable, navigable and 21 more...
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Fun to Say
imitable, puddle, limbus, lorgnette, ersatz, saccharine, cirrostratus, susurrus
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