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unimitative

unimitative adjective: not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.

Adjective

unimitative (not comparable)

  1. Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.
    • The Kind Parent of all created beings sees the struggles of His weak children […] He sees—pities and assists; raises them from the dust; points out their path, and accelerates their flight to Heaven. Oh! how unimitative of his beneficence are the fellow-creatures of the fallen!1801, Alethea Lewis, chapter 97, in The Microcosm, volume 4, London: J. Mawman, page 85
    • […] in the Doric temple the triglyph and cornice are unimitative; or imitative only of artificial cuttings of wood.1849, John Ruskin, chapter 4, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 95

Synonyms of unimitative

Origin of unimitative

From un- + imitative.

Words formed from unimitative

Questions about unimitative

What does unimitative mean?
Unimitative means not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.
What part of speech is unimitative?
Unimitative is an adjective.

Words near unimitative in the dictionary

  1. unimers
  2. unimetric
  3. unimitable
  4. unimitated
  5. unimitating
  6. unimitative
  7. unimitatively
  8. unimmaculate
  9. unimmediate
  10. unimmerged
  11. unimmergible

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