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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1. Northrop Frye:

   It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

2. Vicky Osterweil:

   Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police, it gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also, it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that's a part of it that doesn't really get talked about – that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.

3. G. M. Trevelyan:

   The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

4. Carly Fiorina:

   I have been doing business in China for decades, they are not terribly imaginative. They're not entrepreneurial, they don't innovate. That is why they are stealing our intellectual property.

5. Michael Moller:

   The Secretary-General has launched a reform process that is limping, but it's limping precisely because of the micromanagement by member states that has reached gigantic proportions and is acting as a massive brake on any kind of forward imaginative and innovative movement of the organization.