1. Marked by or given to imitation
   "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being" 
2. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
   "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"
   - echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic 
3. Not genuine; imitating something superior
   - counterfeit

See also: apelike, apish, artificial, assumed, bad, base, bogus, cod [Brit], fake, false, fictitious, fictive, forged, imitate, inauthentic, insincere, mimetic, mimic, mock, ostensible, ostensive, parrot-fashion [Brit], parrotlike, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put on, sham, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unauthentic, unreal

Antonym: nonimitative

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