Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a lively imagination, especially a creative imagination.
- adj. Created by, indicative of, or characterized by imagination or creativity.
- adj. Tending to indulge in the fanciful or in make-believe.
- adj. Having no truth; false.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Forming images; endowed with imagination; given to imagining: as, the imaginative faculty; an imaginative person.
- Characterized by or resulting from imagination; exhibiting or indicating the faculty of imagination.
- Inquisitive; suspicious; jealous.
- Synonyms Inventive, creative, poetical. See imaginary.
Wiktionary
- adj. having a lively or creative imagination
- adj. tending to be fanciful or inventive
- adj. false or imagined
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
- adj. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
- adj. obsolete Unreasonably suspicious; jealous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
Examples
“Within the light-realm levels, that which you term reality is illusion and that which you term imaginative fantasy is reality.”
“Let us but get that way of looking at things which we call imaginative, and how everything alters.”
“Harold Alison as a specimen of a vigorous physical development so perfectly balanced as to be in a manner self-adjusting, without need of what he called imaginative influences.”
“On the other hand, it does take a certain imaginative leap to understand why anyone would make a film based on the Valiant comic series Bloodshot, which despite strong sales is really just a recombination of a bunch of ‘rogue master killer’ comic book character tropes.”
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“But there is room in imaginative fiction for many devices.”
“Once buyers and sellers are free, they will deploy their assets in imaginative ways in order to extract the most value from their own dollars, and their own labor.”
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“Can they not have a precious decade or so to soar in imaginative literature before we drag them back down to earth?”
“Until that moment, we get lots of characters fighting each other in imaginative, slightly puzzling ways, escaping perils of varying degrees of menace and lunacy, or realizing just how out of their depth they actually are.”
“However, it takes a really good school system to continue to teach in imaginative ways while also dealing with the NCLB requirements. jonnybutter Says:”
“And they are doing so in imaginative, ingenious, and very American ways.”
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oneasterism's words
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innovative
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writer723 [imaginative:
Having a lively imagination, especially a creative imagination.
Created by, indicative of, or characterized by imagination or creativity. Tending to indulge in the fanciful or in make-believe.
Apr 17, 2011