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Definition of "imaginative" []

  • Having a lively imagination, especially a creative imagination. (adjective)
  • Created by, indicative of, or characterized by imagination or creativity. (adjective)
  • Tending to indulge in the fanciful or in make-believe. (adjective)
  • Having no truth; false. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "imaginative" in a sentence
  • "Within the light-realm levels, that which you term reality is illusion and that which you term imaginative fantasy is reality."
  • "Let us but get that way of looking at things which we call imaginative, and how everything alters."
  • "Harold Alison as a specimen of a vigorous physical development so perfectly balanced as to be in a manner self-adjusting, without need of what he called imaginative influences."