emulative
Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
Adjective
- Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- 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...
Origin
First attested in 1593; borrowed from New Latin emulatīvus, by surface analysis, emulate + -ive.