'Imaginative' definitions:
Definition of 'imaginative'
From: WordNet
adjective
(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: imaginative, inventive]
Definition of 'Imaginative'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitutes an important element. --Mure. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'imaginative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Imaginative'
- Imaginability,
- Imaginable,
- Imaginableness,
- Imaginably,
- Imaginal,
- Imaginant,
- Imaginate,
- Imagination,
- Imaginational,
- Imaginationalism,
- Imaginatively,
- Imaginativeness,
- Imagine,
- Imagined,
- Imaginer,
- Imagining,
- Imaginous,
- Imaginal disks,
- figment of the imagination,
- imagination image,
- imaginative comparison,
- stretch of the imagination