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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So surprising, in fact, that they wondered whether the video that appeared online was a deepfake generated by a particularly imaginative artificial-intelligence program.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was always allowed to dress myself, and no matter how crazy or imaginative the outfit was, I typically was allowed to leave the house in it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Though imaginative and unique, Man Ray—a brilliant tactician—was rarely entirely original.

From The Wall Street Journal

It lies within the faint but imaginative constellation Monoceros, which represents a unicorn in star maps.

From Science Daily

Together they symbolized a simpler, more imaginative world.

From Los Angeles Times

imaginative

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