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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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A single definition sends her into a spiral over such terms as “average coral” and “sea pink,” while elsewhere imaginative riffs and historical detours pull the reader well beyond the book’s central thread.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

It has been designed to encourage pre-schoolers to talk to it and carry out imaginative play.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Director Yuval Sharon’s company debut is an imaginative, expansive production headed by two top-flight singers, Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

That’s not a very imaginative assessment of what’s happening.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Generations of energetic and imaginative investigators exhausted their whole lives on the problems.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.