Imitative
['ɪmɪtətɪv] or ['ɪmɪtetɪv]
Definition
(adj.) marked by or given to imitation; 'acting is an imitative art'; 'man is an imitative being' .
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Definition
(a.) Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art.
(a.) Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
(a.) Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative.
(n.) A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.
Checker: Patrice
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Imitating, copying.[2]. Mimicking, aping, apish.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mimicking, caricaturing, copying, unoriginal, servile, apish
ANT:Original, creative, inventive
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Examples
- The imitative artist will be in a brilliant state of intelligence about his own creations? Plato. The Republic.
- Unfortunately, however, this latter furnishes the chief materials of the imitative arts. Plato. The Republic.
- Used for a purpose, the imitative instinct may, like any other instinct, become a factor in the development of effective action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a very ordinary adolescent production, rhetorical and imitative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Britain was unable to resist the imitative impulse, and seized the port of Wei-hai-wei (1898). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The imitative art is an inferior who marries an inferior, and has inferior offspring. Plato. The Republic.
- The age of Augustus was an age of imitative literature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All imitative art is subject to certain limitations, and therefore necessarily partakes of the nature of a compromise. Plato. The Republic.
- A further objection which Plato makes to poetry and the imitative arts is that they excite the emotions. Plato. The Republic.
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