Crossword-Solution: IMITATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Imitative | a. | Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art. |
| Imitative | a. | Formed after a model, pattern, or original. |
| Imitative | a. | Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative. |
| Imitative | n. | A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance. |
We have 59 clues for the answer “IMITATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a parrot | 1 answer |
| parodic | 1 answer |
| imitating or tending to copy | 1 answer |
| Modelled after something else | 1 answer |
| Like store brands vis-à-vis name brands, typically | 1 answer |
| true to nature | 2 answers |
| true to type | 3 answers |
| mimetic | 3 answers |
| Far from original | 4 answers |
| Hardly original | 5 answers |
| ECHOIC | 5 answers |
| slavish | 7 answers |
| not original | 10 answers |
| onomatopoeic | 10 answers |
| derivative | 11 answers |
| Unoriginal | 11 answers |
| homo erectus | 11 answers |
| Impersonating. | 14 answers |
| emulative | 19 answers |
| shopsoiled | 20 answers |
| Imitating | 23 answers |
| Ersatz | 23 answers |
| apish | 25 answers |
| depreciated | 26 answers |
| Neanderthal | 26 answers |
| Ape-like | 26 answers |
| Copying | 30 answers |
| anthropoid | 31 answers |
| Camouflaged | 32 answers |
| Left over | 34 answers |
| Ripped | 34 answers |
| Damaged | 35 answers |
| Frayed | 35 answers |
| Stained __ | 36 answers |
| approximate | 37 answers |
| Clownish | 39 answers |
| Inconceivable | 44 answers |
| Threadbare | 48 answers |
| Copycat | 50 answers |
| blundering | 53 answers |
| Primate | 53 answers |
| phoney | 54 answers |
| Counter-feit | 55 answers |
| Torn | 56 answers |
| Bedraggled | 56 answers |
| Tattered | 59 answers |
| Impaired | 60 answers |
| uninspired | 61 answers |
| Worn | 62 answers |
| Used | 63 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with IMITATIVE (5)
The Monkey, who is the most imitative of animals, descended from the treetop and endeavored to do as they had done.
The vision of Oak kneeling down that night recurred to her, and with the imitative instinct which animates women she seized upon the idea, resolved to kneel, and if possible, pray.
She saw the children of the settlement on the grassy margin of the street, or at the domestic thresholds, disporting themselves in such grim fashions as the Puritanic nurture would permit; playing at going to church, perchance, or at scourging Quakers; or taking scalps in a sham fight with the Indians, or scaring one another with freaks of imitative witchcraft.
The mark of his father’s early life was strong upon him and enhanced by months of association with beasts, from whom the imitative faculty of youth had absorbed a countless number of little mannerisms of the predatory creatures of the wild.
You have conceived my meaning perfectly; and if I mistake not, what you failed to apprehend before is now made clear to you, that poetry and mythology are, in some cases, wholly imitative--instances of this are supplied by tragedy and comedy; there is likewise the opposite style, in which the my poet is the only speaker--of this the dithyramb affords the best example; and the combination of both is found in epic, and in several other styles of poetry.
Quotes with IMITATIVE (3)
..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say it does not originate in concepts, and concepts are not what it communicates. This is what more than anything else differentiates good art from bad, or more accurately authentic from inauthentic art. The latter often originates in a desire on the part of the artist to meet some demand external to himself — to win approval, say, or be in the fashion,…
Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1975–2017).