Definition of "imitative" []

• Of or involving imitation. (adjective)
• Not original; derivative. (adjective)
• Tending to imitate. (adjective)
• Onomatopoeic. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He was even vexed at what I translated by the term imitative harmony."
• "“Let's designate this to be what we call the imitative art [mimêtikon]”; everything else in the large genus can go by some other name (267a)."
• "“calloo-calloo” — a mimetic term imitative of the most frequent notes of the bird."