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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Other Word Forms

• imitability noun
• imitableness noun
• nonimitability noun
• nonimitable adjective
• unimitable adjective

Etymology

Origin of imitable

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

Example Sentences

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

Taking on the role that Robinson played with his imitable tough guy swagger, Garcia paints a gangster portrait more along the lines of those created over the years by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2019

I would implore her to spend an hour or two at serious play with any decent young cat and study the grace and variety of its beautiful, imitable gestures.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir