Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inimitable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inimitable.

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  • adjective That cannot be imitated.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ imitable

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Examples

  • So I read Saramago from that first sentence the way you read a writer whose style and technique, however impressive and overall unimitable, still makes sense right away.

    BLINDNESS RESTORED TEV 2008

  • So I read Saramago from that first sentence the way you read a writer whose style and technique, however impressive and overall unimitable, still makes sense right away.

    The Elegant Variation: TEV 2008

  • Go in there to wanna-be environmentalists and give them a lifestyle makeover, served up with unimitable FCSGS attitude.

    Google Ain't Green FemaleCSGradStudent 2007

  • But Falstaff unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee?

    Preface to Shakespeare 2004

  • But as the unimitable Pindare often did, so is that kind most capable and most fit, to awake the thoughts from the sleepe of idlenesse, to embrace honourable enterprises.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • But as the unimitable Pindar often did, so is that kind most capable and most fit to awake the thoughts from the sleep of idleness, to embrace honorable enterprises.

    The Defense of Poesy 1909

  • It is hard to counterfeit the spirit of majesty, and the unimitable peculiarities of an incommunicable genius and condition.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • But Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee! thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746

  • But Falstaff unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee?

    Preface to Shakespeare Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Arm is unimitable, and your Hand is dazling, fine, small, and plump; long-pointed Fingers, delicately turn'd; dimpl'd on the Snowy out-side, but adorn'd within with Rose, all over the soft Palm.

    The Lady's Looking-Glass, To Dress Herself by: or The Art of Charming 1697

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