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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Imaginative \Im*ag"i*na*tive\, a. [F. imaginatif.] 1. 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. --Mure. 2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. --Coleridge. 3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly}, adv -- {Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: imaginative adj : (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" [syn: {ingenious}, {inventive}]
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