imitative
Origin of imitative
1Other words from imitative
- im·i·ta·tive·ly, adverb
- im·i·ta·tive·ness, noun
- non·im·i·ta·tive, adjective
- non·im·i·ta·tive·ly, adverb
- non·im·i·ta·tive·ness, noun
- o·ver·im·i·ta·tive, adjective
- o·ver·im·i·ta·tive·ly, adverb
- o·ver·im·i·ta·tive·ness, noun
- pre·im·i·ta·tive, adjective
- un·im·i·ta·tive, adjective
Words Nearby imitative
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How to use imitative in a sentence
In just the past few years, creative AIs have expanded into style invention — into authorship that is individualized rather than imitative and that projects meaning and intentionality, even if none exists.
Artificial intelligence challenges what it means to be creative | Richard Moss | February 17, 2022 | Science NewsThere’s a fine line between paying homage to a poet you admire and being overly imitative of that poet’s work.
‘Love and Other Poems’ will satisfy your need for romance | Kathi Wolfe | May 27, 2021 | Washington BladeI was afraid to tell my story directly, wanted to couch it in a fanciful (and imitative) yarn of sex and intrigue.
‘Miracle Boy Grows Up’: Ben Mattlin Speaks to Jay McInerney | Jay McInerney | December 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTYet we know that children are, to greater and lesser degrees, highly imitative of what they see.
The imitative impulse prompting to the production of the semblance of something appears very early in child-life.
Children's Ways | James Sully
In this imitative play we see from the first the artistic tendency to set forth what is characteristic in the things represented.
Children's Ways | James SullyIt is an imitative creature, and takes refuge up among the trees.
Reading is at once an imitative and an appreciative art on the part of the pupil.
Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions | George S. BoutwellSkeat thinks the word gog is “of imitative origin,” but it is more likely that goggle was originally Gog oeuil or Gog Eye.
Archaic England | Harold Bayley
British Dictionary definitions for imitative
/ (ˈɪmɪtətɪv) /
imitating or tending to imitate or copy
characterized by imitation
copying or reproducing the features of an original, esp in an inferior manner: imitative painting
another word for onomatopoeic
Derived forms of imitative
- imitatively, adverb
- imitativeness, noun
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