imaginative Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
    inventive.
    • 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

WordNet

Im*ag"i*na*tive adjective
Etymology
F. imaginatif.
Definitions
  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 constitues 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.

Webster 1913