About The Word Imaginative
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Imaginative
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What's The Definition Of Imaginative?
[adj] (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Imaginative: creative | ingenious | inventive | originative Related Terms | Find terms related to Imaginative: authentic | avant-garde | clever | conceptive | conceptual | contrived | creative | enterprising | esemplastic | expressive | fanciful | fantastic | fecund | fertile | fictional | fictitious | firsthand | fresh | germinal | graphic | ideational | ideative | ingenious | innovative | inspired | inspiring | inventive | meaningful | new | notional | novel | original | originative | poetical | pregnant | productive | prolific | resourceful | revolutionary | seminal | shaping | suggestive | teeming | underived | unique | visionary | visioned | vivid | whimsical See Also | Imaginative In Webster's Dictionary \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, a. [F. imaginatif.]
1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination,
generally in the highest sense of the word.
In all the higher departments of imaginative art,
nature still constitutes an important element.
--Mure.
2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having
a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very
fanciful mind. --Coleridge.
3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
{Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, n.
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