inimitable

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  1. adjective Defying imitation; matchless.

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  • Bagehot's style was inimitable, and I think if I were writing now, and with a better perspective, I should have said not less but a good deal more in its praise. —  The Adventure of Living
  • Her narrative is inimitable, and sometimes, as in the account of her solitary visit to her old home at Haddington twenty-three years after her marriage, her dramatic power is overwhelming. —  The Life of Froude
  • 'The figure and person of Lady Stanley are inimitable,' writes Sydney. —  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
  • It was really curious to observe the inimitable originality caused by the utter exclusiveness of the view taken by them. —  Life of Chopin
  • All hail to thee, inimitable, incomparable Jack! —  The Man Shakespeare
 

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  1. Middle English, from Latin inimitābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + imitābilis, imitable (from imitārī, to imitate; see aim- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French inimitable = Spanish inimitable = Portuguese inimitavel = Italian inimitabile, from Latin inimitabilis, that may not be imitated, from in- privative + imitabilis, that may be imitated: see imitable.
 

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/ɪnˈɪmɪtəbl/
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