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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMAG'INATIVE, a. That forms imaginations.
1. Full of imaginations; fantastic.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. of, relating to, or characterized by imagination b. devoid of truth ; false 2. given to imagining ; having a lively imagination 3. of or relating to images; especially showing a command of imagery • imaginatively adverb • imaginativeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 having or showing in a high degree the faculty of imagination. 2 given to using the imagination. Derivatives: imaginatively adv. imaginativeness n. Etymology: ME f. OF imaginatif -ive f. med.L imaginativus (as IMAGINE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitutes an important element. --Mure. 2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. --Coleridge. 3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly, adv. -- Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone or their ideas as imaginative, you are praising them because they are easily able to think of or create new or exciting things. ...an imaginative writer. = inventive ADJ [approval] • imaginatively The hotel is decorated imaginatively and attractively. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Inventive, creative, plastic, poetical, esemplastic.

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