Imaginative \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, a. [F. imaginatif.]
1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination,
generally in the highest sense of the word.
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In all the higher departments of imaginative art,
nature still constitutes an important element.
--Mure.
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2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having
a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
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Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very
fanciful mind. --Coleridge.
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3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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" [syn: ingenious, inventive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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