imitable
Americanadjective
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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
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
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
The scene is thoughtless, cruel, imitable – and has led to calls for a boycott.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2018
And, unless their colours be actually luminous, as those of the sun, or of fire, these patches of different hues are sufficiently imitable, except so far as they are seen stereoscopically.
From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin
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