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UK
/ɪmˈædʒɪnətˌɪv/
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[ US /ˌɪˈmædʒənətɪv/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈmædʒənətɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
an ingenious device
inventive ceramics
the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman
had an inventive turn of mind
an imaginative use of material
How To Use imaginative In A Sentence
- But the avant-garde has found support for its imaginative approach from such sciences as biology.
- Some menswear shops do sell more imaginative clothes - but the assistants have rarely met any customers over the age of 36.
- Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
- A halfway house between the theatre and cinema is possible. Olivier created one in his imaginative "Henry V" in 1945.
- I was so enthusiastic about working out in the world again, doing something imaginative that empowered me. Mothers who Leave
- The accountant was described as being personally dull, boring and unimaginative.
- The principal rooms, both downstairs and upstairs, have decorative mantelpieces and cornices that are imaginatively conceived and neatly executed.
- My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
- She suggests a four-stage process: walk into your house; turn the oven up high; prepare two or three ingredients in imaginative combinations (such as poussin, sweet potato and red onions; or cod, courgettes and capers); slap them in the oven, soused with oil and herbs; and retire to a sofa to souse yourself with something even stronger. Sorted For Brill And Whizz
- I attended with some positive anticipation, because the Poulenc Concerto, along with the Camille Saint-Sa'ns Symphony No. 3 avec orgue (with organ), have always seemed highly imaginative examples of gifted composers managing to craft beautiful and meaningful, even reflective statements for the mighty and potentially overpowering instrument. Undefined