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mimetic

/mɪˈmɛtɪk/

mimetic adjective: exhibiting mimesis.

Adjective

mimetic (comparative more mimetic, superlative most mimetic)

  1. Exhibiting mimesis.
    • No enthusiasm recalled by mimetic art could hold poise with the intensity of the actual exultation of the Athenians on that day when they saw the Persian fleet hacked to pieces in the narrow strait.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 71
  2. Imitative.
    • This is a planned city, built wholesale from scratch, and coloured with a mimetic sense of humour. Lusail has a replica Place Vendôme. Lusail has a fake Beverly Hills (still under construction).2022 November 27, Barney Ronay, “Welcome to Lusail: Lego-city of the gods and one of the strangest places on earth”, in The Guardian

Noun

mimetic (plural mimetics)

  1. Something mimetic or imitative.
  2. A type of mnemonic in the form of a picture.
  3. A substance with similar pharmacological effects as another substance or as a lifestyle intervention such as diet or exercise.
    • caloric restriction mimetic
    • exercise mimetic

mimetic meaning in Bengali

mimetic in Bengali

অনুকরণমূলক, নকল করে এমন

Examples of mimetic in a sentence

  • These results underline the remarkable potential of α-helix mimetics based on the oligooxopiperazine scaffold.
  • Indeed, treatment of aplastic anemia patients with thrombopoietin mimetics, such as eltrombopag and romiplostim, have demonstrated clinical efficacy.
  • In mimesis, words come to be taken for the things they denote, as though they were onomatopoietic (truly mimetic).

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Antonyms of mimetic

Forms of mimetic

Adjective
comparativemore mimetic
superlativemost mimetic
alternative form (obsolete, rare)mimetick
Noun
pluralmimetics

Origin of mimetic

From Latin mīmēticus or its etymon Ancient Greek μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”). By surface analysis, mime + -etic.

Words formed from mimetic

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Questions about mimetic

What does mimetic mean?
Mimetic means exhibiting mimesis.
What is mimetic in Bengali?
Mimetic in Bengali is অনুকরণমূলক, নকল করে এমন. See Mimetic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mimetic?
Mimetic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce mimetic?
Mimetic is pronounced /mɪˈmɛtɪk/.

Words near mimetic in the dictionary

  1. mimesters
  2. mimestry
  3. mimetene
  4. mimetese
  5. mimetesite
  6. mimetic
  7. mimetic desire
  8. mimetic desires
  9. mimetical
  10. mimetically
  11. mimeticism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mimetic (page history and authors); mimetic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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