imitative
imitative adjective: imitating; copying; not original.
Adjective
imitative (comparative more imitative, superlative most imitative)
- Imitating; copying; not original.
- Modelled after another thing.
- sound-symbolic or onomatopoeic
imitative meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
imitative in Hindi
- imitative
- जाली jālī
imitative in Tamil
- போலியக நடிக்கிற
imitative in Urdu
- imitative
- جعلی ja'lī
imitative in Malayalam
- similar, like, mimicking
- സദൃശമായ, സാമ്യമുള്ള, സമാനമായ, അനുകരിക്കുന്ന, ഒരുപോലെയുള്ള, ഒരേമാതിരിയായ
- unoriginal, derivative, unimaginative
- അനുകരണാത്മകമായ, അനുകരണമായ, വേറൊന്നിൽ നിന്നെടുത്ത, മറ്റൊന്നിനെ അനുകരിച്ചുണ്ടാക്കിയ, മൗലികമല്ലാത്ത, ആവർത്തനം കൊണ്ടു വിരസമായിത്തീർന്ന
- onomatopoeic, echoic
- അനുകരണശബ്ദമായ, ശബ്ദാനുകരണപരമായ, ധ്വന്യനുകരണപരമായ, മാറ്റൊലിയായ, ശബ്ദാനുകരണാലങ്കാരപരമായ
Synonyms of imitative
Antonyms
Forms of imitative
| comparative | more imitative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most imitative |
Origin of imitative
From Latin imitātīvus.
Words formed from imitative
Phrases with imitative
Questions about imitative
- What does imitative mean?
- Imitative means imitating; copying; not original.
- What is imitative in Hindi?
- Imitative in Hindi is जाली (jālī). See Imitative meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is imitative?
- Imitative is an adjective.
Words near imitative in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: imitative (page history and authors); जाली (Hindi) (page history and authors); imitative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جعلی (Urdu) (page history and authors); imitative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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