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Meaning of imitative

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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