INIMITABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inimitable mean? 

• INIMITABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INIMITABLE has 1 sense:

1. defying imitation; matchless

  Familiarity information: INIMITABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INIMITABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Defying imitation; matchless

Context example:

an inimitable style

Similar:

irreproducible; unreproducible (impossible to reproduce or duplicate)

 Context examples 

Sir Charles Tregellis continued for some years to show his scarlet and gold at Newmarket, and his inimitable coats in St. James’s.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is not this room rich in specimens of your landscapes and flowers; and has not Mrs. Weston some inimitable figure-pieces in her drawing-room, at Randalls?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Our Agatha was inimitable, and the duke was thought very great by many.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In poetry, they must be allowed to excel all other mortals; wherein the justness of their similes, and the minuteness as well as exactness of their descriptions, are indeed inimitable.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She could not do so, without comparing herself with Miss Larolles, the inimitable Miss Larolles; but still she did it, and not with much happier effect; though by what seemed prosperity in the shape of an early abdication in her next neighbours, she found herself at the very end of the bench before the concert closed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My uncle shrugged his shoulders carelessly, and took a pinch of his snuff with that inimitable sweeping gesture which no man has ever ventured to imitate.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Later in the morning, and just as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o'clock dinner, the hero of this inimitable charade walked in again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

For in such a solitude as I desired, I could at least enjoy my own thoughts, and reflect with delight on the virtues of those inimitable Houyhnhnms, without an opportunity of degenerating into the vices and corruptions of my own species.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You, sir, may say any thing, cried Mr. Elton, but I must confess that I regard it as a most happy thought, the placing of Miss Smith out of doors; and the tree is touched with such inimitable spirit!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)