ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

ender unlike &c adj.; vary &c (diversify) 140.
Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind; &c (class) 75
unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented &c 83; original.
nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different
mold, tertium quid [Lat.], as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale [Hamlet]; as
different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non
lucendo [Lat.].
diversified &c 16.1.
Adv. otherwise.
Phr. diis aliter visum [Lat.]; no more like my father than I to Hercules [Hamlet].
19. Imitation -- N. imitation; copying &c v.; transcription; repetition, duplication,
reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint.
mockery, mimicry; simulation, impersonation, personation; representation &c 554;
semblance; copy &c 21; assimilation.
paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature &c 21.
plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit &c (falsehood) 544; celluloid.
imitator, echo, cuckoo † , parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat;
plagiarist, pirate.
V. imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch;
transcribe; match, parallel.
mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act &c (drama) 599;
represent &c 554; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque.
follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake
of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf
out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate.
Adj. imitated &c v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on.
paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking.
Adv. literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim [Lat.], sic, totidem verbis [Lat.], word for
word, mot a mot [Fr.]; exactly, precisely.
Phr. like master like man; like - but oh! how different! [Wordsworth]; genius borrows
nobly [Emerson]; pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks [A.
Coles]; quotation confesses inferiority [Emerson]; Imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery.
20. Nonimitation -- N. no imitation; originality; creativeness.
invention, creation.
Adj. unimitated † , uncopied † ; unmatched, unparalleled; inimitable &c 13; unique,
original; creative, inventive, untranslated; exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon
[Lat.], unexampled.
20a. Variation -- N. variation; alteration &c (change) 140.
modification, moods and tenses; discrepance † , discrepancy.
divergency &c 291; deviation &c 279; aberration; innovation.
V. vary &c (change) 140; deviate &c 279; diverge &c 291; alternate, swerve.
Adj. varied &c v.; modified; diversified &c 16.1.