imitative

Meanings

Adjective

• 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; ; - Harry Hoijer
  • "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"
• not genuine; imitating something superior

Adj

• Imitating; copying; not original.
• Modelled after another thing.
• sound-symbolic or onomatopoeic

Synonyms

copycat, counterfeit, derivative, echoic, emulative, epigonic, imitative, mimical, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic, unoriginal

Antonyms

creative, genuine, innovative, inventive, nonechoic, nonimitative, nonmimetic, original

Related Words

imitable