Imitative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMITATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.
ADJECTIVE:
• inclined to imitate; formed after a model
• copying or following a model or example
• following a model or example without any attempt at originality
• (of a word) reproducing a natural sound (e.g. fizz) or pronounced in a way that is thought to correspond to the appearance or character of the object or action described (e.g. blob).
• imitating or tending to copy
• 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.
• Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
• 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.
• marked by or given to imitation
• (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
• not genuine; imitating something superior
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by imitation; reproducing or representing a natural sound; onomatopoeic; exhibiting mimicry

Words related to IMITATIVE

imitatively19 imitativeness18

Words that contain IMITATIVE

limitative15 imitatively19 delimitative18 nonimitative17 imitativeness18 imitativenesses20

How to use IMITATIVE in a sentence

• Had it been imitating me? Its race are eminent for imitative genius.
• At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct in man is a proof of his kinship with apes.
• Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative.
• But his treatment of the subject was too palpably imitative of one poetic model, already stale from repetition.
• Hence they may also be termed imitative or imaginative.
• They are intensely imitative and acquire a bias towards local ideas of right and wrong through association with intimate companions.
• They all serve to show that in them the instinct for experimental investigation of everything with which they are surrounded, and their imitative faculties are peculiarly great.
• Very early in her life the little girl reveals in her play, in her conversation, in her countless imitative acts, the ideals which are being formed.
• The sixth line in Dryden is perhaps exquisite for its imitative harmony, and with peculiar felicity paints the action itself.
• Again, take the whole question of the imitative use of language.
• He is imitative, and absorbs the spirit of selfishness as quickly as do the native-born.
• No doubt this behavior varies in individual cases, inasmuch as in some few the imitative articulation may be to some extent earlier developed than the understanding.
• Nothing could show more clearly that it is simply and frankly imitative of stained glass.
• So this imitative and timid artifice, this conformity to opinions the ground and meaning of which is not fully understood, becomes a great engine of social progress.
• There was, however, some imitative work done later by a potter named Cozzi which was very good.
• I, obeying the imitative instinct that is so strong in childhood, tired to regulate my life in conformity with his.
• The speculative Deity suggested by the drama of nature, was worshipped with imitative and sympathetic rites.
• It has been suggested that the imitative sense of the negro has led him to absorb elements of other song.
• Finally, from the wrist, the articulation passes to the fingers, and here is imitative perfection.
• There is a gesture, an imitative expression wherever there is an additional figure.
• All the Byzantine work that was done later in Ravenna is merely imitative, an expression of failing power under the crushing disaster of the Lombard invasion.
• While the Chinaman has inventive faculties and keen intellect and wonderful imitative powers, yet in other respects he is behind the progressive races of the world.
• He is the most native and the least imitative of all our fiction writers.
• It is even too descriptive, too imitative of things, and seems to out-run the province of words, somewhat as that did the province of notes.
• There is no need therefore to say more about the theory than this, namely, that though the drama is an imitative art, yet besides imitation its effects demand illusion.
• Consequently most of the teaching must take advantage of the imitative instinct.

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