Imitate vs Unimitable - What's the difference?
imitate | unimitable |
To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
* 1870 , Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)
To copy.
That cannot be imitated.
*{{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee! thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1915, author=Aphra Behn, title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6), chapter=, edition=
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As a verb imitate
is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.As an adjective unimitable is
that cannot be imitated.imitate
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Verb
(imitat)- Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.
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