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adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

copied

adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

mimetic

adj. characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis; "a mimetic dance"; "the mimetic presentation of images"

echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic

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"- Harry Hoijer

imitation, substitute, ersatz

adj. artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

hollow, false

adj. deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"

unfaithful, disloyal, faithless

adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"

perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

unimaginative, sterile, uninspired, uninventive

adj. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"

artificial, unreal

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

false

adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

insincere, hypocritical

adj. lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

unreal

adj. lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"

adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

banal, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

commonplace, trite, bromidic, hackneyed, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn

adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

routine, stock, ready-made, cliched

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

derivative, derived

adj. resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

duplicate, triplicate

adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

old, stale

adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"

slavish

adj. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

traced

adj. derived by copying something else; especially by following lines seen through a transparent sheet

delineative, depictive

adj. depicted in a recognizable manner

eidetic

adj. of visual imagery of almost photographic accuracy

figurative, figural

adj. consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read

realistic, naturalistic

adj. representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers"

objective

adj. emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art"

nonimitative

adj. not marked by or given to imitation

genuine

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

authentic, unquestionable, veritable, bona fide

adj. not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

true, real

adj. not spurious: "real mink"; "true gold"

good

adj. not forged; "a good dollar bill"

nonechoic

adj. not echoic or imitative of sound

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