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imitative Adjective 1. imitating or tending to copy 2. copying or reproducing an original, esp. in an inferior manner: imitative painting 3. onomatopoeic
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The Monkey, who is the most imitative of animals, descended from the treetop and endeavored to do as they had done. First, the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated. 3) The general structure of these epics is clearly imitative. |
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