Lexic.us

Definition of Imaginative

1. Adjective. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action. "Inventive ceramics"

Definition of Imaginative

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

Definition of Imaginative

1. Adjective. having a lively or creative imagination ¹

2. Adjective. tending to be fanciful or inventive ¹

3. Adjective. false or imagined ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imaginative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imaginative

Literary usage of Imaginative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The imaginative child's fancy must still content itself with very low flights, if it can rise at all. Among the many other writers of this school, ..."

2. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"sion of ail imaginative temperament is in itself a more fertile source of unreal pains than pleasures, the answer may be short, too; an imaginative mind has ..."

3. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by William Young Sellar (1897)
"On the other hand, it is to be noticed how sparingly Virgil uses one of the grandest resources in the repertory of Lucretius,— that of imaginative analogies ..."

4. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1908)
"It is at least a question whether this period been correctly named — the world in which the child lives is to hii a very real one and is an imaginative one ..."

5. The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century by Martha Pike Conant (1908)
"With the exception of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Orient has given us no book that has become so intimate a part of our imaginative inheritance. ..."

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