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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

... and moorland country. Those strange furnace-fires, which rose up at dusk from the earth and gleamed all around the horizon, like red fiery eyes open all night long, how mysteriously did they haunt the imaginative child! Then the town, Oldchurch, how in her after-life it grew distinct from all other towns, like a place seen in a dream, so real and yet so unreal! There was its castle-hill, a little island within a large pool, which had once been a ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

... a grotesque dream or so perhaps; I can't recall anything of that sort distinctly now. I had a very lively interest in women, even when I was still quite a little boy, and a certain—what shall I call it?—imaginative slavishness—not towards actual women but towards something magnificently ...

— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells

... "The imaginative richness, the marvellous ingenuity of plot, the power and subtlety of the portrayal of character, the charm of the romantic environment,—the entire atmosphere, indeed,—rank this novel at once among the ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... peace and ensue it,' admire as much of the book as deserves any sort of admiration, and attribute the blameable parts to the prejudices of the party with whom the writer 'fell in,' and not to a want of honesty or brotherhood in his own intentions. I admire Mr. Dickens as an imaginative writer, and I love the Americans—I cannot possibly admire or love this book. Does Mr. Martin? ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... behind the jungle when they left the courtyard of the Three Elephants' Heads and ascended the stone steps towards the inner moat. They crossed the bridge, and entered the outer city in silence. The place was very dreary at that hour of the day, and to Codd, who was of an imaginative turn of mind, it seemed as if faces out of the long deserted past were watching him from every house. His companions, however, were scarcely so impressionable. They were gloating over the treasure they had won for themselves, ...

— My Strangest Case • Guy Boothby

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