ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unimitative

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Unimitative is an adjective meaning Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.

Meaning

Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.

Example Sentences

[…] in the Doric temple the triglyph and cornice are unimitative; or imitative only of artificial cuttings of wood.
1973, Philip Gardner, E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge, 2002, Introduction, p. 19, The influence of Meredith on his comic attitude was pointed out, btu Forster’s entirely unimitative style freed him from any charge of slavishness.
The Kind Parent of all created beings sees the struggles of His weak children […] He sees—pities and assists; raises them from the dust; points out their path, and accelerates their flight to Heaven. Oh! how unimitative of his beneficence are the fellow-creatures of the fallen!

Synonyms for unimitative

Depending on context, synonyms include inventive, novel, original.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonimitative, unimitating, nonmimetic, unimitable, unassimilative, antimimetic.

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