imaginative

Speech parts

1. imaginative - Adjective

2. imaginative - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.

Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.

Unreasonably suspicious; jealous.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inventive new original novel fantastic psychical inspired unusual experimental fresh artistic creative fantasy fictional intelligent

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Antonyms

walker boor old certain real true

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Phrases with the word

imaginative skills imaginative writing imaginative abilities imaginative capabilities imaginative functions imaginative processes

Examples

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. Herman Wouk

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Walter Lippmann

God is only a great imaginative experience. D. H. Lawrence

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. Gore Vidal

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. Alan Moore

Close letter words and terms

imaginational imaginationalism imaginationless imaginative abilities imaginative approach imaginative capabilities