Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an imaginative manner; with or by the exercise of imagination.

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  • adverb In a imaginative manner; showing creativity.

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  • adverb with imagination

Etymologies

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imaginative +‎ -ly

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  • "If a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively. What is Glasgow to most of us? A house, the place we work, a football park or a golf course, some pubs and connecting streets. That's all." - 'Lanark', Alasdair Gray.

    December 2, 2007

  • Is this another bilbyism? (puzzled by the quotation marks again!)

    December 2, 2007

  • Indeed no, see edit below.

    December 2, 2007

  • Hey, that rhymes.

    It happens sometimes.

    December 2, 2007

  • One of these days, when I have a lot of time, I must read that book(s). ;-)

    December 2, 2007