imaginative
- adjective
- /ɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv/
- Her imaginative approach to problem-solving helped the team develop unique solutions.
- imaginative and creative
- imaginative play
- imaginative thinking
I would use imaginative language and humor.
- I would use imaginative language and humor.
- Well written, very imaginative and extremely funny.
- This is epic fantasy after all, of great imaginative but also intellectual depth.
- Now there are so many movies, so many TV shows with imaginative characters, aliens, monsters.
- Quite frankly, the president's plans not tough enough, bold enough or imaginative enough to meet the crisis at hand.
- So we need to make sure that we create the most powerful, imaginative thoughts that are actually our reality.
- They develop and enhance and and change the story in their, their own imaginative ways.
- I know it will find something because my brain is so capable of being imaginative about what can go wrong in life.
- And because of that accessibility that they have now, have they been more imaginative in the way they make the movies?
- Some more imaginative astronomers said yes, but what if the thing collapses?
- It doesn't matter to me what they look like, and I think nature is probably a lot more imaginative than I am.
- It demands flexibility, openness and what Lear calls imaginative excellence and most importantly, radical hope.
- Incredibly able, popular, the Queen loved her very, very tough as well and very imaginative.
- I mean, I think they have to be imaginative ways to put together, you know, sort of crowdsourcing funding.
- By staying in the state of what you have imagined with your subjective attention, this is how you harden an imaginative wish into a material reality.
Examples
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Our winner for this year's most imaginative bartender goes to Ready to Go.
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That's a really imaginative thought.
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Well written, very imaginative and extremely funny.
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The camera work, the the lighting, it is so imaginative it's crazy.
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So we need to make sure that we create the most powerful, imaginative thoughts that are actually our reality.
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Dreams are for the imaginative.
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I would use imaginative language and humor.
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Now there are so many movies, so many TV shows with imaginative characters, aliens, monsters.
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I think we're all very gifted and like very imaginative creatures that can make amazing things come to life.
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His work had earned the reputation of being dangerous, bold, imaginative, and audacious.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
Showing imagination to make art or new ideas
Having new ideas or methods to do things better
Able to think of new and useful ideas
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
A way of comparing unlike things in writing using similes or metaphors
How Imaginative
Surface Forms
Morphology
imaginative = imagination (transparent) = imagine + imagination + ative
The adjective's meaning is directly derived from 'imagination'/'imagine' via a productive adjectival suffix, so learners who know the base can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Imaginative comes from the Latin root imago, which means 'image' or 'picture', and it is the same root as the words image and imagine. So to be imaginative is to make new pictures in your mind, which is why the word means having creative ideas.