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unimitative

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1973, Philip Gardner, E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge, 2002, Introduction, p. 19, The influence of Meredith on his comic attitude was pointed out, btu Forster’s entirely unimitative style freed him from any charge of slavishness.

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History

Etymology

From un- + imitative.