Synonyms for imaginative
ɪˈmædʒ ə nə tɪv, -ˌneɪ tɪvimag·i·na·tive

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1. imaginative

   That is fanciful which is dictated or suggested by fancy independently of more serious considerations; the fantastic is the fanciful with the added elements of whimsicalness and extravagance. The fanciful swings away from the real or the ordinary lightly and pleasantly, the fantastic extravagantly, the grotesque ridiculously. A fanciful arrangement of objects is commonly pleasing, a fantastic arrangement is striking, a grotesque arrangement is laughable. A fanciful theory or suggestion may be clearly recognized as such; a visionary scheme is erroneously supposed to have a basis in fact. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

   Synonyms:
   chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, grotesque, visionary

   Antonyms:
   accurate, calculable, calculated, commonplace, literal, ordinary, prosaic, real, reasonable, regular, sensible, solid, sound, sure, true

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1. imaginative

   Synonyms:
   creative, conceptive, ideal, poetical, romantic, inventive, original

   Antonyms:
   unimaginative, unpoetical, unromantic, prosaic, matter-of-fact, literal, uninventive

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1. imaginative, inventiveadjective

   (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

   "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"

   Synonyms:
   inventive

   Antonyms:
   uncreative

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1. imaginativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   inventive, creative, poetical

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1. List of paraphrases for "imaginative":

   creative, inventive, fanciful, innovative, resourceful, imaginary, ingenious

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How to use imaginative in a sentence?

1. Piphus Peace:

   Puppets allow us to enter the imagination of a child, you think of a child playing. Their toys can talk. Their cars can move. So you’re speaking their imaginative and creative language when you’re allowing a puppet to come to life.

2. George Santayana:

   A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

3. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   My priority is to reform the European Union to make it more competitive and address the concerns of the British people about our membership. The status quo is not good enough, what matters is that the European Union and its 28 members are flexible and imaginative enough to respond to these issues.

4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

5. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen:

   Boris Johnson's article was very imaginative, the claim that Delors would rule Europe was well out of proportion and was water on the paranoid wave that opponents of the Maastricht Treaty were trying to create.