Misimitate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misimitate is a verb meaning To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of.
Meaning
To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of.
Example Sentences
They have all misheard and misimitated song lyrics without great trauma.
Whenever anyone for some reason is motivated to improve his speech, he imitates ( or misimitates ) what he thinks to be the community norm .
The SK wants his Yatì (vs. the Kavi's weak one!); but the Kavi preserves that and the final rhythm, managing the proper names with a variation of 2b (q.v.), which latter the SK partly misimitates.
Just as historic styles are distorted, cheapened and misimitated for commercial production, modern designs can be “knocked-off" through imitation that almost always misses the point of the original, copies its least significant aspects, and introduces modifications that distort its real values.
Word Forms
- misimitates
- misimitating
- misimitated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mimic, mimick, mimmick, misparrot, sham, misproduce.
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