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imitable

American  
[im-i-tuh-buhl] / ˈɪm ɪ tə bəl /

adjective

  1. capable or worthy of being imitated.

    She has many good, imitable qualities.


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Etymology

Origin of imitable

1540–50; < Latin imitābilis, equivalent to imitā ( rī ) to imitate + -bilis -ble


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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

Like him, Newton's whip-smart energy ensures Maeve will always be watchable; there's an imitable way that she cocks her hip in the face of fear that quickens the pulse.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022

Getting Alan Sugar to endorse the vaccine for young people was probably not on their list of priorities, but he’s done that on social media this morning in his own imitable style.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2021

Its call, "Cuckoo," aptly described as the "most imitable of bird calls," has also assisted in making the bird a favorite.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach

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