emulative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

emulate +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

emulative (comparative more emulative, superlative most emulative)

Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
  It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips.

Derived terms[edit]

emulatively

Translations[edit]

having a tendency to emulate others

Galician: emulador
Manx: co-eiyrtagh
Portuguese: emulador
Spanish: emulador

Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

emulative

feminine plural of emulativo

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