PLAGIARISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plagiaristic mean? 

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

1. copied and passed off as your own

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAGIARISTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Copied and passed off as your own

Synonyms:

plagiarised; plagiaristic; plagiarized

Context example:

a work dotted with plagiarized phrases

Similar:

derived (formed or developed from something else; not original)

Derivation:

plagiarism (the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own)

plagiarism (a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work)

 Context examples 

Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)