Meanings
comparative more inimitable · superlative most inimitable
- Beyond imitation, surpassing all others; matchless.
Let's see you pay for your drink in your own inimitable fashion, huh? A song, Denton! How about it?
1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (1:34 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Dan Hotaling (Martin Landau)2 more examples
Moreover, a perfect Medal has its Profile and out-ſtroaks ſharp (Nummus aſper) and by no means rugged; the Figures clean and well poliſh'd; the Contours neatly trimm'd, and exactly round and carefully preſerv'd; that the Extancy and Relievos correſpond with the Ingraving, and have not ſuffer'd in Percuſſion; in all which, there is a certain Spirit of Antiquity and Excellency to be diſcern'd in Antient Medals almoſt inimitable.
1697, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Instructions How to Collect, and Procure such Medals as are Antique, and Rare; and to Distinguish the True from the False, for the Prevention of Frauds and Impostures”, in Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke […], →OCLC, page 201Sterling himself, though he had the most picturesque and inimitable vocabulary of vituperation, was highly squeamish about ordinary smut or profanity. He had indeed that nice-Nelliness which is often characteristic of the Don Juan type.
1947, Miriam Allen deFord, “Laureate of Bohemia: George Sterlin”, in They Were San Franciscans, Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., page 306Synonyms: incopiable, uncopiable, unimitable · Antonyms: imitable, commonplace
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBeyond imitation, surpassing all others; matchless.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivedefying imitation; matchless
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininimitabilis
- Middle Frenchinimitable
- Englishinimitable
Borrowed from Middle French inimitable, from Latin inimitabilis, corresponding to in- + imitable.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian неподражаем
- неподражаем (nepodražaem)beyond imitation
Dutch onnavolgbaar
- onnavolgbaarbeyond imitation
Esperanto neimitebla
- neimiteblabeyond imitation
Finnish jäljittelemätön
- jäljittelemätönbeyond imitation
French inimitable
- inimitablebeyond imitation
German unnachahmlich
- unnachahmlichbeyond imitation
Greek αμίμητος
- αμίμητος (amímitos)beyond imitation
Hungarian utánozhatatlan
- utánozhatatlanbeyond imitation
Japanese 真似を許さない, 独特の
- 真似を許さない (mane wo yurusanai)beyond imitation
- 独特の (dokutoku no)beyond imitation
Polish niepowtarzalny, niezrównany
- niepowtarzalnybeyond imitation
- niezrównanybeyond imitation
- niepodrabialnybeyond imitation
Portuguese inimitável
- inimitávelbeyond imitation
Russian неподража́емый
- неподража́емый (nepodražájemyj)beyond imitation
Spanish inimitable
- inimitablebeyond imitation
Turkish benzersiz, eşsiz
- benzersizbeyond imitation
- eşsizbeyond imitation
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