imitation, n. 1. imitating, mimicking, mimicry, Zool. mimesis, apery, monkeying; impersonation, mocking, parody, take-off, caricature, burlesque, travesty.
2. simulation, representation, replica, repetition, duplication, copy, facsimile; semblance, adaptation.
3. counterfeit, forgery, fake, sham; plagiarism, paraphrase; brummagem, tinsel, fraud.
-adj. 4. imitative, simulated, synthetic. See - imitative (def. 2).
imitative, adj. 1. mimic, Archaic, mimical, mimetic, apish, parrot-like; derivative, secondary, unoriginal; copied, plagiarized.
2. counterfeit, forged, fraudulent, imitation, fake, Inf. phony; not genuine, bogus, spurious, supposititious, bastardly.
3. pretended, feigned, simulated, make-believe, sham, flash; unreal, false, insincere, mock, ersatz, synthetic; artificial, factitious, contrived, SI. hokey, fictitious; assumed, put-on, pseudo; specious, meretricious, theatrical.
imitator, n. copier, copyist, Inf. copycat, follower, shadow, epigone; mimic, impersonator, monkey, ape, parrot, echo; feigner, pretender; counterfeiter, forger, plagiarist.
immaculate, adj. 1. spotless, unstained, stainless, refined, unsoiled, untarnished, unsullied; white, snowy, snow-white, speckless; washed, laundered, fresh, starched; spick-and-span, neat, tidy, clean, natty, spruce.
2. virgin, untouched, untainted, unspoiled; unadulterated, pristine, uncontaminated, unpolluted; disinfected, sanitized, hygienic, aseptic, sterile.
3. pure, undefiled, unblemished, unfouled, undebased; virginal, chaste, innocent, vestal, lily-white; virtuous, holy, incorrupt, saintly, sinless, guiltless; irreproachable, irreprehensible, unimpeachable, above suspicion.
4. flawless, faultless, errorless, perfect, impeccable; consummate, ideal, infallible, indefectible, correct.
immanent, adj. 1. indwelling, inborn, innate, inbred, ingenerate; inherent, intrinsic, indigenous; native, connate, connatural, natural, natural-born; hereditary, inherited, in the blood, in the family.
2. rooted, deep-rooted, inveterate; ingrained, engrained, inwrought, enwrought.
immaterial, adj. 1. inconsequential, unimportant, unessential, inessential, nonessential, insignificant, irrelevant; inconsiderable, inappreciable, trifling, trivial, petty, slight, of little account, of no moment; diminutive, small, inferior, minor, light.
2. not material, incorporeal, discarnate, bodiless, disembodied, unfleshly, impalpable, intangible; metaphysical, spiritual, transcendental, supernatural, ethereal, unearthly, superphysical, hyperphysical, supersensible, extramundane; aerial, ghostly, spectral, shadowy; animistic.
immature, adj. unripe, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, imperfect, incomplete; rudimental, rudimentary, embryonic, half-grown, premature, abortive; crude, raw, green, tender, fresh, new, unmellowed; callow, inexperienced, unsophisticated, gullible, unversed, Inf wet behind the ears; youthful, infantile, juvenile, puerile, childish, boyish, beardless.
immaturity, n. 1. imperfection, incompleteness; unripeness, greenness, crudity, crudeness, rawness; rudimentariness, abortiveness, incipiency.