IMITATIVE

• (adj.) not genuine; imitating something superior

  "counterfeit emotion", "counterfeit money", "counterfeit works of art", "a counterfeit prince"

  synonyms : counterfeit

• (adj.) marked by or given to imitation

  "acting is an imitative art", "man is an imitative being"

• (adj.) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound

  "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises", "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"

  synonyms : echoic , onomatopoeic , onomatopoeical , onomatopoetic

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