mimetic exhibiting mimicry; "mimetic coloring of a butterfly"; "the mimetic tendency of infancy"- R.W.Hamilton
mimic constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison
parrotlike mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding; "a mere parrotlike word-calling process"; "a voice quality sounding parrotlike"
imitative -
not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
echt,
genuine not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
artificial,
unreal artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
false (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
insincere lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
unreal lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"
assumed,
pretended,
put on,
sham,
fictitious,
fictive,
false adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
forged,
bad feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
base debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
mock constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"
ostensible,
ostensive represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
pinchbeck serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"
pseudo (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"
imitative -
(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer
