imitative
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈɪmɪˌteɪtɪv/
:
imitativo
- Fame, prestige, and public honor are in themselves illusory products of imitative desire.
- imitative behavior
- imitative level of play
- imitative practice
She's got these incredible imitative capacities.
- She's got these incredible imitative capacities.
- He calls mimetic or imitative arts.
- So there are some problems with the imitative theory of art.
Examples
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Recent research on the brain shows how our imitative behavior happens.
Blog text (26) -
She's got these incredible imitative capacities.
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Most early play was imitative of adult behavior, often with adult tools.
Academic text (2006) -
Initially, the work of such centers is likely to be passive and imitative.
Academic text (1993) -
The more a society is imitative, following tradition, the more deteriorating it is.
Blog text (29) -
If second parts are imitative, they are much easier for children when they exactly imitate the melody.
Academic text (2000) -
Inuit art, especially ivory and soapstone carving, was particularly imitative in its physical form.
Academic text (1990) -
Over ninety-five percent of the wood and terracotta sculptures coming out of Mali are imitative of ancient objects.
Academic text (1995) -
The auctioneer, a woman in her forties, specialized in a certain stage patter ironically imitative of the classic auction house style.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many children engage in imitative play, pretending to cook or clean as they see their parents do.
Synonyms
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7.2
Very similar to another person's work and not original
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8.1
Showing that something copies the look or behavior of another thing
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4.5
Made to look or act like something else
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7.0
Wanting to equal or beat someone by copying them
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
To send fake radar or radio signals into enemy systems to trick them
- Specialized
To send fake radio signals that look real to trick enemy electronic systems
How Imitative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imitative comes from the same Latin root as imitate and imitation, which mean 'to copy'. So something described as imitative is like making a copy of a person or style — copying their actions or look.