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Definition: Imitative |
ImitativeAdjective1. Marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being". 2. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer. 3. Not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imitative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ImitativeSynonyms: counterfeit (adj), echoic (adj), onomatopoeic (adj), onomatopoeical (adj), onomatopoetic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: genuine (adj), nonechoic (adj), nonimitative (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Copy | Unoriginal, imitative, derivative. |
Imitation | Paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking. |
Representation | Adjective: represent, representing; Verb:, representative; illustrative; represented; Verb: imitative, figurative; iconic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Imitative |
| English words defined with "imitative": apery, archaistic, arty ♦ Bronzing ♦ echoic, emulously ♦ latinate ♦ mannish, mimesis, Mimetical, Mimical, Mimically, mimicry ♦ nonechoic ♦ Onomatope, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic ♦ Peabody bird, primitivism, Princified ♦ shoddiness, simulated, slavish ♦ trashiness, Tu-whoo ♦ underivative ♦ vox humana. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "imitative": bang-bang control ♦ mass aqua. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "imitative": Zoozoo. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Shenstone | The profession of the player, like that of the painter, is one of the imitative arts, whose means are pleasure, and whose end should be virtue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Imitative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.59% of the time. "Imitative" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.59% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "imitative": electronic imitative deception ♦ imitative arts ♦ Imitative Behavior ♦ imitative deception ♦ imitative electronic deception ♦ the imitative arts. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "imitative": non-imitative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "imitative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | imitues (burlesque, imitator, impersonator, mimetic, mimic, simulator), imitativ. (various references) | |
Arabic | مقلد (counterfeiter, forger, imitator, impersonator, mimic), تقليدي (academic, classic, classical, conventional, imitator, oldish, orthodox, traditional), زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), който обича да подражава, който наподобява, който подражава, неоригинален (mechanical, ready-for-service, sequacious, unoriginal), присъщ на мимикрията, подражателен (emulative, mimic), имитиран (imitation, simulated). (various references) | |
Chinese | 模仿 (Aped, Aping, impersonator, mimicry, simulate, simulated, Simulating, simulation). (various references) | |
Czech | imitativní, zvukomalebný, onomatopoický, napodobující. (various references) | |
Danish | imitatoriske nervesygdome (imitative neuropathies nervous diseases), imitationssygdomme (imitative neuropathies nervous diseases), imitationspsykose (imitative psychosis), vildledning ved efterligning af fjendtlige radarsignaler (imitative deception), tegning efter naturen (imitative design), efterlignelsestrang (imitative impulse), chorea imitatorica (imitative chorea). (various references) | |
Dutch | zucht tot nadoenerij (imitative impulse), pseudochorea (imitative chorea), chorea mimetica (imitative chorea, mimetic chorea), chorea imitativa (imitative chorea). (various references) | |
Farsi | تقلیدی , بدلی (Counterfeit, Imitation, Spurious). (various references) | |
Finnish | jäljittelevä. (various references) | |
French | imitatif, simili (imitation). (various references) | |
German | nachahmend (imitating, mimetic, mimicking, pantomiming, simulating). (various references) | |
Greek | μιμητικόσ (mimetic). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חקיני. (various references) | |
Hungarian | utánzó (counterfeiter, imitator, impersonator, mimetic, mimic, mocker, unoriginal), utánzott (bogus, counterfeit, false, mock, unoriginal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | suka meniru. (various references) | |
Italian | imitativo (mimic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 擬音 (imitative sounds), 声色 (imitative voice, mimicry, song and women, tone of voice, voice and countenance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎおん (entertainment district in Kyoto, imitative sounds), こわいろ (imitative voice, mimicry, tone of voice). (various references) | |
Manx | lhiannagh (keeping close, laminar, laminate, laminated), arrishagh (copycat, imitation, jeerer, mocking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imitativeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imitativo (mimetic), imitador (ape, apish, copier, imitator, impersonator, impostor, mimic), macaqueador (apish, imitator). (various references) | |
Romanian | arte plastice (imitative arts). (various references) | |
Russian | неоригинальный (ready made, unoriginal), поддельный (bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, factitious, forged, mock, phoney, pinchbeck, pretended, queer, shoddy, spurious, supposititious, tin, unreal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podražajni, koji imitira. (various references) | |
Spanish | imitativo, postizo (artificial, detached, Dickey, dummy, false, postiche). (various references) | |
Swedish | efterliknande (emulation). (various references) | |
Thai | ปลอม (fake, false, spurious), ซึ่งเลียนแบบ (sequacious). (various references) | |
Turkish | taklit eden (mimetic, mimic), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), benzeyen (akin, akin to, alike, smilar), andıran (analogic, analogical, analogous, evocative, reminiscent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неоригінальний (unoriginal), наслідувальний (emulative, mimetic, mimic, slavish), підроблений (adulterate, adulterated, bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, falsified, mock, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, staged, supposititious). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mô phỏng, bắt chước (mimic, mock, sequacious). (various references) | |
Welsh | efelychiadol, dynwaredol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mimetikos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imitative": imitatively, imitativeness, imitativenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "imitative": limitative, nonimitative. (additional references) | |
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"Imitative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imagative, initative, inititive, intiative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imitative" (pronounced i"mutā'tiv) |
| 6 | -u t ā' t i v | authoritative, meditative, qualitative, quantitative, rehabilitative. |
| 5 | -t ā' t i v | facultative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accommodative, accumulative, administrative, appreciative, collaborative, cooperative, deliberative, dissipative, elucidative, innovative, investigative, iterative, legislative, manipulative, prognosticative, regulative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-i-m-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: imitate, vitiate. | |
-3 letters: vittae. | |
-4 letters: matte, mavie, vitae, vitta. | |
-5 letters: amie, emit, item, mate, matt, meat, meta, mite, mitt, tame, tate, team, teat, time, titi, vita. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-i-m-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: limitative, mitigative. | |
+2 letters: imitatively. | |
+3 letters: nonimitative. | |
+4 letters: imitativeness. | |
+5 letters: administrative, multiplicative. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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