Adjective: imitative 'i-mu,tey-tiv [N. Amer], i-mi-tu-tiv [Brit]
- Marked by or given to imitation
"acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"
- (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
"onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises";
- echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic
- Not genuine; imitating something superior
"imitative emotion";
- counterfeit
See also: apelike, apish, artificial, assumed, bad, base, bogus, cod [Brit, informal], fake, false, fictitious, fictive, forged, inauthentic, insincere, mimetic, mimic, mock, ostensible, ostensive, parrot-fashion [Brit], parrotlike, phoney, phony [N. Amer], pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put on, sham, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unauthentic, unreal
Antonym: nonimitative