imitation
imitation is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of imitating. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of imitating.
- noun. That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
- noun. One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
- noun. The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.
- noun. copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
- noun. something copied or derived from an original
- noun. the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
- noun. a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- adjective. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
"it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"
"faux pearls"
Synonyms
caricature, impersonation, fake, false, faux, simulated
Common word forms
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