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imaginative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective imaginative has 1 sense
- imaginative(s = adj.all) inventive - (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"; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics" Derived forms noun imaginativeness1, verb imagine1
CIDE DICTIONARY
imaginative, a. [F. imaginatif.].
- Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word. [1913 Webster]"In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitutes an important element." [1913 Webster]
- Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. [1913 Webster]"Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind." [1913 Webster]
- Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. Chaucer.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
imaginative, adj.
1 having or showing in a high degree the faculty of imagination.
2 given to using the imagination.
1 having or showing in a high degree the faculty of imagination.
2 given to using the imagination.
Derivative
imaginatively adv. imaginativeness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF imaginatif -ive f. med.L imaginativus (as IMAGINE)
THESAURUS
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, whimsicalROGET THESAURUS
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Imagination
N imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, mind's eye, such stuff as dreams are made of, ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, a fine frenzy, cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, thick coming fancies, creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy, fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne, Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon, work of fiction, Arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of Alnashar, illusion, phantom, Fata Morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector, imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, fancy light from fancy caught, imagination rules the world, l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, Wahrheil und Dichtung, DIVISION II COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS.
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