What's the difference between inimitable and unimitable?
Inimitable
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diego Costa, fit enough to reclaim the position he occupies in inimitable fashion, hassled a defender and nudged at the opposition goalkeeper just because he can’t resist it.
(2) He took his cameras to a school run by Save the Children in Kenya, for homeless boys from Nairobi, for instance, that was set up along the lines of a British public school; the children are shown blowing bugles, marching, reading books including The Inimitable Jeeves and Tom Brown's Schooldays.
(3) The "swazzle" – a device puppeteers use to create Punch's inimitable squawk – has been passed down through five generations of the Codman family.
(4) Tomorrow at 11.15, a wreath commemorating the 200th year of Charles Dickens's birth will be laid at Westminster Abbey – where his bones lie – and, one half expects, the nation will observe two minutes' silence for "the Great Inimitable".
(5) Country music star Dolly Parton has answered the critics who questioned whether she was miming during her Glastonbury set in her own inimitable style, telling the Sun : "My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."
(6) Nigel Farage, complaining in his inimitably “non-racist” way that it’s only a matter of time before a British holidaymaker or lorry driver dies as a result of the Calais migrant crisis, ought to be ashamed to admit that such petty league tables of human mortality lurk in the darkest recesses of his mind.
(7) Watch here This leaves the McBusted lineup slightly lopsided, with Dougie Poynter, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Harry Judd repping for McFly, and only Matt Willis and James Bourne around to inject some of Busted's inimitable aesthetic.
(8) Mr Dickens, you are still, and always will be, the Inimitable.
(9) 4.42pm BST Heeeerre's The Fiver … … with it's own inimitable take on Summer Transfer Deadline Day 2013 , or as I'm beginning to think of it STDD13 4.39pm BST "Birmingham Mail deadline day tracker have been reporting all day that Villa are looking to sign Libor Kozak from Lazio," emails Dunstan Kesseler.
(10) "He would revise tirelessly and the room could be inundated with papers, gradually to be organised and collated and resulting frequently in a poem appearing complete and written out in his inimitable hand on a large sheet of cardboard to be seen as well as read."
(11) His letters and journals - many written with an eye towards publication - vividly conjure the life and times of an inimitable self-dramatiser ("Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other," he declaimed).
(12) In flooded the parodies - including the inimitable Sir Patrick Stewart holding a tube of wet wipes to his ear.
(13) And then there’s the inimitable Paul Ryan, who reminded us that “freedom is the ability to buy what you want to fit what you need.
(14) This place feels as old as time itself: the Etruscans were here, there is a Roman amphitheatre and the Medici made their inimitable and indelible mark with a fortress, which they converted into a prison.
(15) Shows that follow include a set by the satirical rockers Jonny & The Baptists ; a one man show called Berkoff the Inimitable; and comedy from the sketch quartet Four Screws Loose .
(16) It became famous for Kirsty Young perching on her desk, but Channel 5 News looks set for another kind of revolution with channel owner Richard Desmond wanting to stamp his inimitable mark on its news programmes.
(17) Even for boxing, a sport which, for all its inimitable thrills, still offers up cringeworthy matchups with alarming frequency, this is bad.
(18) Nishville, however, disagreed: There's more variation in a single episode of Blackadder than in all 11 seasons of Frasier … I really struggle to understand where this British complex of inferiority to the Americans comes from, your comedy is not about quantity but highly compressed inimitable quality.
(19) Daft Punk are at No 1 in the album charts with Random Access Memories, thanks in no small part to the lead single Get Lucky – a showcase for the inimitable rhythmic guitar of Chic's Nile Rodgers.
(20) "We were much better than Vitesse but just didn't play well," said van Gaal, flashing his inimitable logic.