Imitative and Model

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Imitative adjective - Using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model.

Usage example: your writing style tends to be imitative of whichever author you've recently read

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Model is an antonym for imitative.

Model adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

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Imitative is an antonym for model.

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Model and Imitative. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/imitative/model

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