imitative

1. Marked by or given to imitation (synset 301219127)
   "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"
   similar to:

   • apelike, apish - being or given to servile imitation
   • mimetic - exhibiting mimicry
   • mimic - constituting an imitation
   • parrotlike - mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding
   • simulated - reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character
2. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound (synset 301220250)
   "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"
   same as: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic
3. Not genuine;
   Imitating something superior (synset 301120122)
   "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
   also:

   • artificial, unreal - contrived by art rather than nature
   • unreal - lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
   • insincere - lacking sincerity
   • false - not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
   similar to:

   • assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham - adopted in order to deceive
   • bad, forged - reproduced fraudulently
   • base - debased; not genuine
   • bastard, bogus, fake, phoney, phony - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
   • inauthentic, spurious, unauthentic - false or fake; not what it appears to be
   • mock - constituting a copy or imitation of something
   • ostensible, ostensive - represented or appearing as such; pretended
   • pinchbeck - serving as an imitation or substitute
   • pseudo - (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of
   • synthetic - not genuine or natural
   same as: counterfeit

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