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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

... said that the German witnesses are imaginative and enthusiastic, and their confidence ought to be distrusted. That kind of enthusiasm is at least of a quiet sort, evidently the result of profound conviction and certainly free from any taint of worldly interest, and is by no means ...

— Strange True Stories of Louisiana • George Washington Cable

... begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a ...

— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

... is studded with the most poetical imagery, and marked in every part with the happiest graces of expression, while it is calm, chaste, and flowing, and transparent as water. There is a habit among nearly all the writers of imaginative literature, of adulterating the conversations of the poor with barbarisms and grammatical blunders which have no more fidelity than elegance. Hawthorne's integrity as well as his exquisite—taste prevented him from falling into this error. There ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... this conception of a former existence is embodied in one of the Myths in which Plato's imaginative powers are seen at their highest. In it the soul is compared to a charioteer driving two winged steeds, one mortal, the other immortal; the one ever tending towards the earth, the other seeking ever to soar into ...

— A Short History of Greek Philosophy • John Marshall

... of an aetherial atom in the rough, based not upon any imaginative hypothesis, but rather upon that strict conformity to observation and experience, which is the very groundwork of all ...

— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

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