Definition of Imaginative
Imaginative
Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
Unreasonably suspicious; jealous.
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Imaginative Quotations
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana
God is only a great imaginative experience.
David Herbert Lawrence
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Jacob Bronowski
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Alfred North Whitehead
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
Ralph Fiennes
Imaginative Translations
imaginative in German is erfinderisch, phantasievoll
imaginative in Norwegian is fantasifull
imaginative in Spanish is imaginativo
imaginative in Swedish is fantasirik, fantasifull
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