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Definition of imitative in English: imitativeadjective ˈɪmɪtətɪvˈɪməˌteɪdɪv 1Copying or following a model or example. the derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats Example sentencesExamples - It is to be propitiated rather than harnessed: young couples make love in the newly ploughed furrows at seedtime as imitative magic to guarantee fertility.
- I thought at first, when we looked at this sequence, that we've got something here that was imitative, that it was perhaps unfair.
- This craze has had a lot of publicity but that carries the risk of even more imitative crimes.
- The second movement is a sort of imitative canzona, which really shows this piece as a sort of bow to the past in many ways.
- If the patient is aphasic and is unable to follow commands, the physician should have the patient attempt imitative responses.
- His presentation of history from the perspective of the ‘camera eye,’ particularly, might best be understood as an attempt to evade the undertow of imitative psychology.
- Moreover, they are in every respect exemplary - i.e. they are projected as an imitative model for the viewing subject.
- Consequently, the move toward organised generic, class and therapeutic substitution is a signal that imitative R and D will be less rewarding in the future.
- Like emulation learning, ontogenetic ritualization does not require individuals to analyze the behavior of others in terms of ends and means in the same way as does imitative learning.
- Secondly, with an imitative strategy there is no need to spend a lot on advertising to educate buyers about product features: you need only to show the new features added.
- This creates an inbuilt majority of ‘violent’ games showing up when children play in an imitative style.
- Each year, for example, imitative Miskitu crowns, scepters, and swords appear as part of a celebratory re-enactment called the kingpulanka.
- He has been concerned with theatre which is both local and fun and not imitative of either imported intellectual or theatrical forms.
- All available evidence suggests that ontogenetic ritualization, not imitative learning, is responsible for chimpanzees' acquisition of communicative gestures.
- Inherited imitative behavior is hard to demonstrate.
- Over the centuries the makers of delftware have copied all sorts of decorative styles so that this essentially imitative craft has become a style in itself.
- One of the most surprising things I noticed was how imitative I was.
- In music terms, at least in the pop area, this blanking experience doesn't really exist, because the nature of the medium is imitative and there is always something out there to imitate.
- You can imitate it, but that would be sort of… imitative.
- There has been no attempt to separate imitative learning by children from other social influences that are known to affect learning, although it is clear that even very young children are capable of imitating.
Synonyms similar, like mimicking, mimetic, mimic, parrot-like informal copycat - 1.1 Following a model or example without any attempt at originality.
I found the film pretentious and imitative Example sentencesExamples - In many cases this obscurity is well-deserved; many early works are mediocre, naïvely imitative stuff, unworthy to stand in the canon with Seymour, Walcott, Selvon, Naipaul or Lamming.
- Barring the work of a few painters, most of the modern art in this country is blatantly imitative, but we still have a problem awarding crafts the recognition given to the arts.
- It's beautiful for as long as he's struggling, which is about two minutes before he gets a grip and retreats to a safe distance, and the band churns out boring, imitative crud for the remaining 70 minutes.
- That is why the hip-hop in this country has been imitative, lacking creativity and sterile.
- His architecture is a result of his subtle imitative skills rather than originality, solving problems by picking and choosing from existing schools.
- In our art world, there are enough examples of art that are imitative.
- Television being an imitative rather than innovative business, networks tend to follow a trend until they run it into the ground, he said.
- ‘I was being literally imitative and derivative’.
- Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.
- All art, all thought (for as Clausewitz himself expressed it, all thought is art), was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
- There are all the palely imitative books of quests, holy violence and silly names, for a start; then there are the hundreds of computer games, the sword-waggling role-players, and the couple of film adaptations.
- His films are emulative, not imitative or derivative.
- These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
- Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.
- When adopting the new too, he has refrained from being imitative or pretentious.
- Failing any evidence to the contrary, it can be assumed that this parallelism was not imitative, and that the Alice books came into existence through the same need for a healing of the spirit.
- I can remember lying on the floor and writing these, probably very poor, poems - because they were all in rhyme and form and probably quite imitative - but they gave me enormous joy, and I worked on them, I crossed bits out and worked on them.
- But here, even his imitative music is somehow distinctive.
- And with that simple revelation somehow all art was transformed from the imitative and derivative to the wholly substantive.
- They are not hackneyed imitative replicas of the original versions.
Synonyms derivative, unoriginal, uninventive, non-innovative, unimaginative, uninspired, plagiarized, plagiaristic, copied, second-hand, rehashed, warmed-up clichéd, hackneyed, stale, trite, tired, worn out, flat, banal, stock informal cribbed, old hat, hacky
2(of a word) reproducing a natural sound (e.g. fizz) or pronounced in a way that is thought to correspond to the appearance or character of the object or action described (e.g. blob). Example sentencesExamples - The number of imitative words in any language is bound to be quite small, and for many such words the sound-meaning relation is by no means direct.
- The derivation of the word ‘quail’ has been charmingly explored by Francesca Greenoak who points out that it is an imitative name, cognate with ‘quack’.
Derivatives adverb By the end of the first half of the concert, when the group performed the Credo from this Mass, some tuning problems had crept in, especially in the opening measures of sections when only one or two parts were beginning imitatively. Example sentencesExamples - The Tam O'Shanter theme heard earlier is treated imitatively, building up to an impressive coda.
- Several language acquisition studies show that children as young as eighteen months can combine all of the types of intention reading we have discussed above while imitatively learning novel words.
- It imitatively lifted the idea, without noticing that because the New Zealand tax system is pay-as-you-earn, one pays taxes all the year.
- In music the word denotes a composition in which three or more voices (very rarely two) enter imitatively one after the other, each ‘giving chase’ to the preceding voice.
noun If one thing strikes Western observers of Eastern karaoke, it is its imitativeness. Example sentencesExamples - The economic rationale of their imitativeness - including their self-imitativeness - is, ‘Well, we don't really know what works, so let's repeat what worked and let's throw money at the studio or the star or the producers who gave us hits.‘
- Most of the people surrounding him are skeptical and disaffected, and he may adopt the same attitude from imitativeness or sheer cowardice.
Definition of imitative in US English: imitativeadjectiveˈiməˌtādivˈɪməˌteɪdɪv 1Copying or following a model or example. the derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats Example sentencesExamples - It is to be propitiated rather than harnessed: young couples make love in the newly ploughed furrows at seedtime as imitative magic to guarantee fertility.
- There has been no attempt to separate imitative learning by children from other social influences that are known to affect learning, although it is clear that even very young children are capable of imitating.
- Consequently, the move toward organised generic, class and therapeutic substitution is a signal that imitative R and D will be less rewarding in the future.
- Over the centuries the makers of delftware have copied all sorts of decorative styles so that this essentially imitative craft has become a style in itself.
- I thought at first, when we looked at this sequence, that we've got something here that was imitative, that it was perhaps unfair.
- Each year, for example, imitative Miskitu crowns, scepters, and swords appear as part of a celebratory re-enactment called the kingpulanka.
- He has been concerned with theatre which is both local and fun and not imitative of either imported intellectual or theatrical forms.
- Inherited imitative behavior is hard to demonstrate.
- You can imitate it, but that would be sort of… imitative.
- In music terms, at least in the pop area, this blanking experience doesn't really exist, because the nature of the medium is imitative and there is always something out there to imitate.
- All available evidence suggests that ontogenetic ritualization, not imitative learning, is responsible for chimpanzees' acquisition of communicative gestures.
- Like emulation learning, ontogenetic ritualization does not require individuals to analyze the behavior of others in terms of ends and means in the same way as does imitative learning.
- If the patient is aphasic and is unable to follow commands, the physician should have the patient attempt imitative responses.
- The second movement is a sort of imitative canzona, which really shows this piece as a sort of bow to the past in many ways.
- His presentation of history from the perspective of the ‘camera eye,’ particularly, might best be understood as an attempt to evade the undertow of imitative psychology.
- This creates an inbuilt majority of ‘violent’ games showing up when children play in an imitative style.
- One of the most surprising things I noticed was how imitative I was.
- Secondly, with an imitative strategy there is no need to spend a lot on advertising to educate buyers about product features: you need only to show the new features added.
- Moreover, they are in every respect exemplary - i.e. they are projected as an imitative model for the viewing subject.
- This craze has had a lot of publicity but that carries the risk of even more imitative crimes.
- 1.1 Following a model or example without any attempt at originality.
an ill-conceived and imitative addition to the museum Example sentencesExamples - In many cases this obscurity is well-deserved; many early works are mediocre, naïvely imitative stuff, unworthy to stand in the canon with Seymour, Walcott, Selvon, Naipaul or Lamming.
- But here, even his imitative music is somehow distinctive.
- It's beautiful for as long as he's struggling, which is about two minutes before he gets a grip and retreats to a safe distance, and the band churns out boring, imitative crud for the remaining 70 minutes.
- His architecture is a result of his subtle imitative skills rather than originality, solving problems by picking and choosing from existing schools.
- In our art world, there are enough examples of art that are imitative.
- His films are emulative, not imitative or derivative.
- Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.
- Failing any evidence to the contrary, it can be assumed that this parallelism was not imitative, and that the Alice books came into existence through the same need for a healing of the spirit.
- Barring the work of a few painters, most of the modern art in this country is blatantly imitative, but we still have a problem awarding crafts the recognition given to the arts.
- Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.
- They are not hackneyed imitative replicas of the original versions.
- And with that simple revelation somehow all art was transformed from the imitative and derivative to the wholly substantive.
- I can remember lying on the floor and writing these, probably very poor, poems - because they were all in rhyme and form and probably quite imitative - but they gave me enormous joy, and I worked on them, I crossed bits out and worked on them.
- That is why the hip-hop in this country has been imitative, lacking creativity and sterile.
- All art, all thought (for as Clausewitz himself expressed it, all thought is art), was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
- These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
- There are all the palely imitative books of quests, holy violence and silly names, for a start; then there are the hundreds of computer games, the sword-waggling role-players, and the couple of film adaptations.
- ‘I was being literally imitative and derivative’.
- When adopting the new too, he has refrained from being imitative or pretentious.
- Television being an imitative rather than innovative business, networks tend to follow a trend until they run it into the ground, he said.
Synonyms derivative, unoriginal, uninventive, non-innovative, unimaginative, uninspired, plagiarized, plagiaristic, copied, second-hand, rehashed, warmed-up
2(of a word) reproducing a natural sound (e.g. fizz) or pronounced in a way that is thought to correspond to the appearance or character of the object or action described (e.g. blob). Example sentencesExamples - The number of imitative words in any language is bound to be quite small, and for many such words the sound-meaning relation is by no means direct.
- The derivation of the word ‘quail’ has been charmingly explored by Francesca Greenoak who points out that it is an imitative name, cognate with ‘quack’.
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