[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

imitative \im"itative\, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. formed after a model, pattern, or original.
      1913 webster

            this temple, less in form, with equal grace,
            was imitative of the first in thrace. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   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"itatively, adv. --
      im"itativeness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
im"itatively im"itativeness 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

imitative \im"itative\, n. gram.
   a verb expressive of imitation or resemblance. r.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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, onomatopoeic,
         onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic ant: nonechoic
     3: not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit
        emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art";
        "a counterfeit prince" syn: counterfeit ant: genuine
see also:
nonimitative echoic onomatopoeic onomatopoeical onomatopoetic nonechoic 
counterfeit genuine 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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