From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imaginative \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, adjective [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}, adverb -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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: {ingenious}, {inventive}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "imaginative": 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
Define.com is a registered nonprofit corporation dedicated solely to the global public interest and the advancement of humanity. It belongs to all of us who have a desire to promote electronic democracy, science, creativity, imagination, reason, critical thinking, peace, race and gender equality, civil rights, equal access to education, personal liberty, free speech, animal rights, compassionate and nonviolent parenting, social and economic justice, global monetary reform, Secular Humanism, cognitive liberty and a permanent cessation of The War on Drugs.
Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
0