Imaginative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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. --
        {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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