Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of imitating.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate. t., 3.
- 5noun
copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
- 6noun
something copied or derived from an original
- 7noun
the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
- 8noun
a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
Synonyms
- 9adjective
not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
"it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"
"faux pearls"
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