[ adj ] defying imitation; matchless <adj.all> an inimitable style
Inimitable \In*im"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. inimitabilis: cf. F. inimitable. See {In-} not, and {Imitable}.] Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. ``Inimitable force.'' --Dryden.
Performing such inimitable feats. --Cowper. -- {In*im"i*ta*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*im"i*ta*bly}, adv.
As "Dallas" struggles into its new season without the inimitable Victoria Principal as Pam Ewing, her fans can still see her in this made-for-TV sudser about a kept woman who loses her keeper and finds that she is ill-suited for any other occupation.
IT SEEMS that the British are finally to be educated about chess. On Monday The Sun newspaper, in its own inimitable style, published 'Ten things you didn't know about Nigel Short'.
The season is a short one, and it is over by the spring. Even the rich have to make do with jars of truffles at this time of the year, which generally lack the inimitable pungency of the fresh tubers.
In the most successful revues of this kind there has always been an added fillip: the striking tap-dance routines in "Sophisticated Ladies" or the inimitable Nell Carter in the Fats Waller revue.