Defenition of the word imitative

• Defenition of the word imitative

  • Not genuine; imitating something superior.
  • not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
  • (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
  • marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"
  • not genuine; imitating something superior
  • marked by or given to imitation
  • (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound

Synonyms for the word imitative

• • banal
  • commonplace
  • copied
  • counterfeit
  • derivative
  • echoic
  • hackneyed
  • onomatopoeic
  • onomatopoeical
  • onomatopoetic
  • plagiarized
  • trite
  • uninspired

Similar words in the imitative

• • apelike
  • apish
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • bad
  • base
  • bastard
  • bogus
  • fake
  • false
  • fictitious
  • fictive
  • forged
  • imitative
  • inauthentic
  • insincere
  • mimetic
  • mimic
  • mock
  • ostensible
  • ostensive
  • parrotlike
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pinchbeck
  • pretended
  • pseudo
  • put on
  • sham
  • simulated
  • spurious
  • synthetic
  • unauthentic
  • unreal

Antonyms for the word imitative

• • echt
  • genuine
  • nonechoic
  • nonimitative

See other words

• • What is time and again
  • The definition of time after time
  • The interpretation of the word repetitively
  • What is meant by over and over again
  • The lexical meaning powerlessly
  • The dictionary meaning of the word scores of
  • The grammatical meaning of the word multitudinous
  • Meaning of the word coherently
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word lots of
  • The origin of the word tritely
  • Synonym for the word triter
  • Antonyms for the word trites
  • Homonyms for the word tritest
  • Hyponyms for the word not great
  • Holonyms for the word weakly
  • Hypernyms for the word not very good
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word uninterested
  • Translation of the word in other languages inured to