- having, using, or showing imagination; having great creative powers
- given to imagining
- of or resulting from imagination: imaginative literature
Origin of imaginative
Middle English imaginatif from Old French from Medieval Latin imaginativus
An imaginative child.
- When you are able to make up an entire fantasy dreamworld to entertain yourself and you can get lost in your own creative ideas, this is an example of being an imaginative person.
- A piece of computer software that does something that no one has ever dreamed of before and that is considered very creative, this is an example of imaginative software.
The definition of imaginative is having or showing creativeness or resourcefulness.
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imaginative
adjective
- Having a lively imagination, especially a creative imagination.
- Created by, indicative of, or characterized by imagination or creativity.
- Tending to indulge in the fanciful or in make-believe.
- Having no truth; false.
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- i·mag′i·na·tive·ly
adverb
- i·mag′i·na·tive·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more imaginative, superlative most imaginative)
Origin
From Middle French imaginatif, from Latin imāginātivus
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Sentence Examples
- Probably nothing like what was on her imaginative mind.
- Classification for the first time was something more than the expression of a fancy, not that it had not also its imaginative side.
- In the Literature of Europe there are many passages of great imaginative beauty.
- To her imaginative and inexperienced mind, it was obvious that he was doing their homework.
- Certainly no poet would venture to despise Wagner's imaginative conception of Kundry.
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WORDS NEAR imaginative IN THE DICTIONARY
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