Apish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Resembling an ape.
  • adj. Slavishly or foolishly imitative: "My own performances were apish imitations of Olivier's stirring cadences” ( Robert Brustein).
  • adj. Silly; outlandish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Resembling or characteristic of an ape.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the qualities of an ape; inclined to imitate in a servile manner; hence, foolishly foppish, affected, or trifling: as, apish manners.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being or given to servile imitation
    • Equivalent
    imitative   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    foppish    affected    trifling    simian    imitative   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
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