IMITATIVE

imitative

1. [Adjective]: marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

2. [Adjective]: not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

3. [Adjective]: (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

Similar words to 'imitative'

1. assumed

2. false

3. fictitious

4. fictive

5. pretended

6. put_on

7. sham

8. bad

9. forged

10. base

11. bogus

12. fake

13. phony

14. phoney

15. bastard

16. inauthentic

17. unauthentic

18. spurious

19. mock

20. ostensible

21. ostensive

22. pinchbeck

23. pseudo

24. synthetic

25. apish

26. apelike

27. mimetic

28. mimic

29. parrotlike

30. simulated

Opposite words to 'imitative'


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