unimitative

English

Etymology

un- +‎ imitative

Adjective

unimitative (not comparable)

1. Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.
   • 1801, Alethea Lewis, chapter 97, in The Microcosm‎^[1], volume 4, London: J. Mawman, page 85:

     The Kind Parent of all created beings sees the struggles of His weak children […] He sees—pities and assists; raises them from the dust; points out their path, and accelerates their flight to Heaven. Oh! how unimitative of his beneficence are the fellow-creatures of the fallen!

   • 1849, John Ruskin, chapter 4, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture‎^[2], London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 95:

     […] in the Doric temple the triglyph and cornice are unimitative; or imitative only of artificial cuttings of wood.

   • 1973, Philip Gardner, E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge, 2002, Introduction, p. 19,

     The influence of Meredith on his comic attitude was pointed out, btu Forster’s entirely unimitative style freed him from any charge of slavishness.

Synonyms

• inventive
• novel
• original

Derived terms

• unimitatively