Definitions

imaginative

[ih-maj-uh-nuh-tiv, -ney-tiv] / ɪˈmædʒ ə nə tɪv, -ˌneɪ tɪv /

ADJECTIVE

creative, inventive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artistic extravagant fanciful fantastic ingenious offbeat original romantic visionary vivid whimsical

WEAK

avant-garde blue-sky brain wave clever dreamy enterprising fertile fictive groundbreaking high-flown inspired originative pie-in-the-sky poetic poetical productive quixotic utopian way-out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ordinary real realistic reasonable unromantic usual

WEAK

dull uncreative unimaginative uninventive unresourceful

Example Sentences

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Sharing a picture of them on social media, she wrote: "A conversation with him left you reeling from irreverent & imaginative quip-lash."

From BBC

The 26-year-old jumped on the trend after being impressed by the imaginative way another content creator had used AI, by editing some of her original photos and adding AI dogs.

From BBC

Bok, a mystically inclined author as well as artist, combined hallucinatory forms with imaginative fidelity to the texts he illustrated.

From The Wall Street Journal

In its early days, the program’s website stated that it had been founded “by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers following an imaginative proposal” by Epstein and an academic.

From The Wall Street Journal

Through the least imaginative means possible, it does so.

From The Wall Street Journal

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