Definition of imitation

"imitation" in the noun sense

1. imitation

the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations

2. imitation

something copied or derived from an original

3. imitation

copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else

4. caricature, imitation, impersonation

a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

"imitation" in the adjective sense

1. fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated

not genuine or real being an imitation of the genuine article it's real synthetic fur"

"it isn't fake anything

"faux pearls"

"false teeth"

"decorated with imitation palm leaves"

"a purse of simulated alligator hide"

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Quotations for imitation

Imitation is suicide. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit. [ Lavater ]

Art is not imitation, but Illusion. [ Charles Reade ]

Imitation is the sincerest flattery. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. [ Colton ]

Emulation and imitation are of twin birth. [ Charles Buxton ]

No man ever yet became great by imitation. [ Johnson ]

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. [ Willmott ]

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. [ Voltaire ]

A good imitation is the most perfect originality. [ Voltaire ]

In everything truth surpasses its imitation or copy. [ Cicero ]

Men do nothing excellent but by imitation of nature. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Imitation forms our manners, our opinions, our very lives. [ John Weiss ]

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is the aim. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Politeness is the expression or imitation of social virtues. [ Duclos ]

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. [ Dr. Johnson ]

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [ Juvenal ]

There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. [ Richter ]

Imitation is born with us, but what we ought to imitate is not easily found. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. [ Lord Greville ]

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. [ Professor Vinet ]

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. [ Goethe ]

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. [ Dryden ]

My advice is to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation. [ Terence ]

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale. [ Kant ]

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. [ Guicciardini ]

It is, indeed, a blessing, when the virtues of noble races are hereditary; and do derive themselves from the imitation of virtuous ancestors. [ Nabb ]

Before Greece, every thing in human literature and art was a rude and imperfect attempt. Since Greece, every thing has been a rude and imperfect imitation. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. [ Confucius ]

To be as good as our fathers, Me must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Nothing is so difficult as the apparent ease of a clear and flowing style; those graces which, from their presumed facility, encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. [ Colton ]

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. [ Aristotle ]

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. [ Agapet ]

imitation in Scrabble®

The word imitation is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters imitation:

IMITATION
(108)
IMITATION
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imitation in Words With Friends™

The word imitation is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters imitation:

IMITATION
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Words within the letters of imitation

2 letter words in imitation (12 words)

3 letter words in imitation (14 words)

4 letter words in imitation (13 words)

5 letter words in imitation (3 words)

6 letter words in imitation (1 word)

9 letter words in imitation (1 word)

imitation + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence imitation

Words that start with imitation (3 words)

Word Growth involving imitation

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Longer words containing imitation

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