Antonyms for imaginative
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ih-maj-uh-nuh-tiv, -ney-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmædʒ ə nə tɪv, -ˌneɪ tɪv |
Definition of imaginative
Origin :- late 14c., ymaginatyf, from Old French imaginatif and directly from Medieval Latin imaginativus, from imaginat-, stem of Latin imaginari (see imagine). Related: Imaginatively; imaginativeness.
- adj creative, inventive
- Like all imaginative people, she had the gift of dramatizing herself.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Dorcas Jane, who was eleven and a half and not at all imaginative, eyed him suspiciously.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- The least imaginative of my charges seemed to feel the influence of the place.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- To an imaginative mind the scene was full of novel interest.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- You are susceptible, imaginative; do not demand too much, or dream too fondly.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- To arrive at such proportions he followed his imaginative instinct.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- The allegory is the life of its author cast in an imaginative form.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- The advance of the imaginative artist is precisely the reverse of this.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
- The imaginative work is necessarily the absolute opposite of all this.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
- All is exquisite in feeling, but not inventive nor imaginative.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
Synonyms for imaginative
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