Imaginative
adjective
Having or showing creativity or new and interesting ideas.
He's not very imaginative when it comes to cooking.
Often appears as...
- highly imaginative
- imaginative approach
adjective
Having a lively or creative mind.
Being an imaginative child, she often invented her own games to play.
Often appears as...
- imaginative child
- imaginative people
adjective
Having or showing creativity or new and interesting ideas.
He's not very imaginative when it comes to cooking.
Often appears as...
- highly imaginative
- imaginative approach
adjective
Having a lively or creative mind.
Being an imaginative child, she often invented her own games to play.
Often appears as...
- imaginative child
- imaginative people
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Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Ordinary
Imaginative means thinking beyond the usual; look for contexts where unusual ideas are valued.
Her imaginative solutions to environmental problems were impressive.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem-Solving
Use 'imaginative' to praise someone's unique way of solving problems.
The team took an imaginative approach to their project.
Pro Tip 3/3Art and Writing
'Imaginative' often describes creative skills in arts or literature.
Her imaginative storytelling captivated the audience.
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but it also helps make it enjoyable. And it's one of the reasons that the book is held up as one of the key texts of literary modernism, a movement characterized by overturning traditional modes of writing. Joyce fills his narrative gymnastic routines with some of the most imaginative use of language you'll find anywhere.
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thinking it's the way the brain is built in the womb and they're imaginative as a matter of fact there's many more women in this category and I do think that this imagination the way the brain is built gives women a tremendous asset in the in the modern business world they tend to have executive social skills they can
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advising governments around the world, and in all of that time I have never once seen a single domestic policy issue that could not be more imaginatively, effectively and rapidly resolved than by treating it as an international problem, looking at the international context, comparing what others have done,
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in a world on fire. I started to wonder, what if we could harness some of the great minds of our generation and think in a bold and robust and imaginative way again about what the next iteration of religious life would look like? Now, we had no money, no space, no game plan,
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"It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.
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Suddenly, they're on a beach about to fall in love. They're experiencing the story at both a visceral and a conceptual level, meeting the writer halfway in the imaginative play of creating a dynamic world of the senses. So when you write, use well-chosen words
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How does the Rorschach...
the creative and imaginative, the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions.
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The secret to desire in...
could not experience pleasure, could not trust, because when you're vigilant, worried, anxious, and insecure, you can't lift your head to go and take off in space and be playful and safe and imaginative. Those who came back to life
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Does Earth Have a Twin?...
galaxies in the universe all these new planets are incredibly diverse nature is more creative and most of the imaginative scientists out there for the first decade or so the planets that were being found where large gas giants
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just like human toddlers it doesn't take long for these imaginative creatures to
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Why should you read...
but it also helps make it enjoyable. And it's one of the reasons that the book is held up as one of the key texts of literary modernism, a movement characterized by overturning traditional modes of writing. Joyce fills his narrative gymnastic routines with some of the most imaginative use of language you'll find anywhere.
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Love and hormones PIPE...
thinking it's the way the brain is built in the womb and they're imaginative as a matter of fact there's many more women in this category and I do think that this imagination the way the brain is built gives women a tremendous asset in the in the modern business world they tend to have executive social skills they can
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Which country does the...
advising governments around the world, and in all of that time I have never once seen a single domestic policy issue that could not be more imaginatively, effectively and rapidly resolved than by treating it as an international problem, looking at the international context, comparing what others have done,
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It's time to reclaim...
in a world on fire. I started to wonder, what if we could harness some of the great minds of our generation and think in a bold and robust and imaginative way again about what the next iteration of religious life would look like? Now, we had no money, no space, no game plan,
Video examples
Why should you read...
"It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.
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How to write descriptivel...
Suddenly, they're on a beach about to fall in love. They're experiencing the story at both a visceral and a conceptual level, meeting the writer halfway in the imaginative play of creating a dynamic world of the senses. So when you write, use well-chosen words
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How does the Rorschach...
the creative and imaginative, the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions.
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The secret to desire in...
could not experience pleasure, could not trust, because when you're vigilant, worried, anxious, and insecure, you can't lift your head to go and take off in space and be playful and safe and imaginative. Those who came back to life
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Does Earth Have a Twin?...
galaxies in the universe all these new planets are incredibly diverse nature is more creative and most of the imaginative scientists out there for the first decade or so the planets that were being found where large gas giants
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Dolphins React to...
just like human toddlers it doesn't take long for these imaginative creatures to
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Ken Liu
American Writer
Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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Jasper Fforde
British Novelist
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
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Frances McDormand
American Actress
I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
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Kirsten Dunst
Actress
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.
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Paul Krugman
American Economist
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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Suheir Hammad
Palestinian Poet
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
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Ken Liu
American Writer
Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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Jasper Fforde
British Novelist
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
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Frances McDormand
American Actress
I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
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Kirsten Dunst
Actress
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.
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Paul Krugman
American Economist
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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Suheir Hammad
Palestinian Poet
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
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