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Meanings of imitative in anglès
(Of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound.
Marked by or given to imitation.
Usage of imitative in anglès
1
There are two great schools of art; the imitative and the imaginative.
2
The sentiment of the white village was overpowering among the imitative negroes.
3
The imitative arts do not exist, or are in their lowest state.
4
Their suicide attempts appear in the spirit of imitative or experimental play.
5
Words in their first formation were doubtless constituted by their imitative power.
6
Nothing is falser than to find him imitative in his representative work.
7
But this imitative tendency was tempered by the pride of Roman citizenship.
8
Unfortunately, however, this latter furnishes the chief materials of the imitative arts.
9
But then children are also imitative, and fearful of the older intellect.
10
After the first year imitative movements are more readily learned than before.
11
Further than this retrogressive and imitative movement he never seemed to go.
12
One was marching with an air imitative of some sublime drum major.
13
An involuntarily imitative man in externals was Jim, but essentially an original.
14
Here is nothing imitative or borrowed, and here are no unmeaning generalities.
15
How different was their discipleship from the imitative methods of modern literati!
16
For the same reason he was imitative in style and mode of thought.
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