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adjective

Imaginative adj.

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."

Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. "Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind."

Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Imaginative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imaginative" Quotes from Famous Books

... reasonable," Rochester remarked, calmly. "Imagine, if you please—you seem to have plenty of imaginative force—that I am a fairy godfather. I may not look the part, but at least I can live up to it. I will provide the key for your escape. I will set you down in the world you are thirsting to enter. You shall take your place with the others, and run ...

— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... merits high praise. He is no "dry" philosopher; he is highly imaginative and picturesque; many of his passages might be styled, like those of Macaulay, "purple," for at times he rises to a high pitch of feeling and oratory. Yet this has been urged against him by some ...

— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn

... which have taken place in Mexico the Pan-American Congress of 1902 was of some importance. The feasting and eloquence, the society functions and self-congratulations which ran riot, were characteristic of this imaginative and enthusiastic race of Latin America. If these matters were more in evidence than practical results—as is often characteristic of such assemblies—at least the important step was taken of calling together their neighbours of ...

— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock

... agency in producing this conjunction may be traced back to the oldest time; but the union of a precise Christological Gnosis, such as we find in Irenaeus and Tertullian, with the retention in their integrity of the imaginative series of thoughts about Antichrist, Christ as the warrior hero, the double resurrection, and the kingdom of glory in Jerusalem, is really a historical novelty. There is, however, no doubt that the strength of the old Catholic theology in opposition to the Gnostics ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... that Dummie protested his innocence. A violent coup-de-pied broke off all further parlance. He made a clear house of the Mug; and the landlady thereof, tottering back to her elbow-chair, sought out another pipe, and, like all imaginative persons when the world goes wrong with them, consoled herself for the absence of realities by the ...

— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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