What does misimitate mean?
Misimitate means To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of.
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.
They have all misheard and misimitated song lyrics without great trauma.
Use misimitate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Misimitate means To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Whenever anyone for some reason is motivated to improve his speech, he imitates ( or misimitates ) what he thinks to be the community norm .
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