imitative

imitative
    adj 1: marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative
           art"; "man is an imitative being" [ant: {nonimitative}]
    2: (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 [syn: {echoic},
       {imitative}, {onomatopoeic}, {onomatopoeical},
       {onomatopoetic}] [ant: {nonechoic}]
    3: not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit
       emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a
       counterfeit prince" [syn: {counterfeit}, {imitative}] [ant:
       {echt}, {genuine}]
    

Imitative \Im"i*ta*tive\, a. [L. imitavitus: cf. F. imitatif.]
   1. 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.
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   2. Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
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            This temple, less in form, with equal grace,
            Was imitative of the first in Thrace. --Dryden.
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   3. (Nat. Hist.) Designed to imitate another species of
      animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful
      purpose, such as protection from enemies; having
      resemblance to something else; as, imitative colors;
      imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of
      minerals are imitative. -- {Im"i*ta*tive*ly}, adv. --
      {Im"i*ta*tive*ness}, n.
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Imitative \Im"i*ta*tive\, n. (Gram.)
   A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance. [R.]
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45 Moby Thesaurus words for "imitative":
      apish, battological, delineatory, depictive, duplicative, echoic,
      echoing, embodying, emulative, figurative, graphic, ideographic,
      illustrational, illustrative, incarnating, iterative, limning,
      mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, parrotlike,
      personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, recapitulative,
      redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative,
      repeating, repetitional, repetitive, representational,
      representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing,
      tautological, tautologous, typifying, vivid