imitable

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And Antonioni's got a signature style that's accessible to them, and seems imitable: shoot some architecture and negative space, have characters disaffectedly utter banalities, and you think you've got it.

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  1. adjective That can be imitated: the imitable sounds of a bird.
  2. adjective Worthy of imitation: imitable behavior.

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  • Even before Byron burst upon the world with the two first cantos of Childe Harold , and drew on him the eyes of all readers of poetry, Scott had made the unwelcome discovery that his own matter and manner was imitable, and that others were borrowing it. —  Crabbe, (George)
  • And Antonioni's got a signature style that's accessible to them, and seems imitable: shoot some architecture and negative space, have characters disaffectedly utter banalities, and you think you've got it. —  GreenCine Daily
  • To show the essential nature of a stitch--drawing the separate into the inseparable, from the lowly work of duly restricted sutor, and modestly installed cobbler, to the needle-Scripture of Matilda, the Queen All the acicular Art of Nations, savage and civilized, from Lapland boot, letting in no snow-water--to Turkey cushion bossed with pearl--to valance of Venice gold in needlework -to the counterpanes and samplers of our own lovely ancestresses, imitable, perhaps, once more, with good help from Whiteland's College--and Girton 216. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
  • It is pardonable for children to wear their Valentines on the 14th of February, or for a young ensign to strut about armed cap ŕ pie for the first week of his appointment; but the fashion of showing off in a red jerkin soiled smalls, mudded boots, and blooded spurs, is not imitable: there is nothing of the old manhood of sport in it; foppery and fox-hunting are not synonymous. —  The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
  • Your course of life is easily imitable: would you have it imitated? —  The Quest of the Simple Life
 

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  1. from French imitable = Spanish imitable = Portuguese imitavel = Italian imitabile, from Latin imitabilis, that may be imitated, from imitari, imitate: see imitate.
 

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