(Of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound.
Sinônimos
Examples for "imitative"
Examples for "imitative"
1There are two great schools of art; the imitative and the imaginative.
2The sentiment of the white village was overpowering among the imitative negroes.
3The imitative arts do not exist, or are in their lowest state.
4Their suicide attempts appear in the spirit of imitative or experimental play.
5Words in their first formation were doubtless constituted by their imitative power.
1THE French word doucement has an onomatopoeic sensuality that is entirely absent from any English synonym.
2Historical note: There are a couple of onomatopoeic myths circulating about the origin of this term.
3And he would have chosen it instinctively-foronomatopoeic reasons-becauseit hums and drones and murmurs dreamily.
4Note some of the most effective onomatopoeic passages.
5Of course, calling it a vaguely onomatopoeic Smooff makes everything else seem like a bastion of sensible, mature branding.
1However, in category III, all tumors were detected as low-echoic by B-mode ultrasonography.
2One tumor showed a hyper-echoic pattern which grew very rapidly.
3The shadow felt Jedi Masters stride the vast echoic emptiness of the vaulted halls outside.
4It is an echoic city, filled with shadows.
5Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) examination showed an encapsulated cystic lesion with relatively homogenous and highly echoic contents.
1Note the onomatopoetic effect of the rhythm.
2Notice for example the onomatopoetic effect in 13, 7 and 8:
3A crude translation of the words, lacking entirely the onomatopoetic quality of the original goes something like this:
4SIRRT, an onomatopoetic word coined by the poet to imitate the sound of the scythe cutting through the grain.
5Its name, like that of the minminzemi, is onomatopoetic; but in Izumo the sounds of its chant are given thus: