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Unimitable vs Unlimitable - What's the difference?

unimitable | unlimitable |

As adjectives the difference between unimitable and unlimitable

is that unimitable is that cannot be imitated while unlimitable is that cannot be limited; illimitable.

unimitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That cannot be imitated.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage=

    unlimitable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That cannot be limited; illimitable.
  • *1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.7:
  • *:In Morality, Rhetorick, Law and History, there is I confess a frequent and allowable use of testimony; and yet herein I perceive, it is not unlimitable , but admitteth many restrictions.