imitable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of imitable
1540–50; < Latin imitābilis, equivalent to imitā ( rī ) to imitate + -bilis -ble
Example Sentences
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Ms. Greene is, in every sense, a singular politician, mercifully neither imitated nor imitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
And so Green, their imitable firebrand, didn’t just press his size-15 sneakers into the sternum of a foe.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
The "Kids," who have been together since 1984, were never that straightforward in the televised version of their act, leaning more heavily on cultivating bizarre and easily imitable characters.
From Salon ● May 20, 2022
Already armed with her unmistakable “ee-ah!” ad-lib, this South African MC becomes even less imitable when she starts up her flow: lipsmacking bars in the Xitsongan language that drip with confidence and disdain.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2018
On some verses of Goethe—Man not constituted like a planet—Matthew Arnold’s poem, “Self-dependence”—Poetry and prose—The wind more imitable than the stars—The stone in Glen Croe—Rest and be thankful.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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