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poetical
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poetic |
| Synonyms: | anapestic, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, epodic, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, odic, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, fictive, high-flown, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetic, poetical, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | dull, uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unresourceful |
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |
| Antonyms: | stolen, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal |
| Main Entry: | innovatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inventive |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, creative, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |
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