Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or involving imitation.
- adj. Not original; derivative.
- adj. Tending to imitate.
- adj. Onomatopoeic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Imitating or inclined to imitate or copy.
- Aiming at imitation; exhibiting or designed to exhibit an imitation of a pattern or model.
- Formed after or presenting a similitude of a model, pattern, or original.
Wiktionary
- adj. Imitating; copying; not original.
- adj. Modelled after another thing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original
- adj. Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
- adj. (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
- n. (Gram.), rare A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by or given to imitation
- adj. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
- adj. not genuine; imitating something superior
Examples
“He was even vexed at what I translated by the term imitative harmony.”
““Let's designate this to be what we call the imitative art [mimêtikon]”; everything else in the large genus can go by some other name (267a).”
““calloo-calloo” — a mimetic term imitative of the most frequent notes of the bird.”
“The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- to s...”
“The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze”
“Paleoglot: The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze”
“The types of techne that most resemble our modern concept of art are those that are “mimetic” or imitative, that is, that reproduce the look of an object or that express an idea in narrative or drama.”
“Poets working in what Plato called the imitative poetic media, epic and tragedy, were of course unable to reply in kind (though some passages of tragic lyric reflect a critical reaction to current philosophical speculation), but Pindar complained that the natural philosophers (tous physiologous) were 'harvesting the fruit of wisdom unripe.”
“Even when the Brussels influence was most direct the flowers and sprays were placed inartistically, while the scroll copies of the early Flemish schools can only be termed the imitative handiwork of a child.”
“A variant of linguistic associationism is the imitative, that is to say, the theory of the onomatopoeia, which the same philologists deride under the name of the "bow-wow" theory, after the imitation of the dog's bark, which, according to the onomatopoeists, gives its name to the dog.”
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