0 a person who copies someone or something that they think is good: --
The difference between Ms McArthur and her countless imitators is the elegance of her writing.
The ease with which forgeries could be carried out was far too tempting for adept imitators.
In this sense, he was neither an innovator nor an imitator.
The 18th and 19th century "revivalists," naturally enough, tended to portray their opponents as rigid and unthinking imitators.
Two agents are randomly chosen from a sufficiently large population, one as an initiator, the other as an imitator.
And perhaps they were right, for there were many imitators.
The business succeeded and soon there were many imitators.
Given the researchers' exemption, imitators can introduce rival varieties with a time lag.
If we cannot distinguish between original and imitation in such cases, we must always concede that an imitator may have been at work.
