Associations to the word «Imaginative»

Wiktionary

IMAGINATIVE, adjective. Having a lively or creative imagination
IMAGINATIVE, adjective. Tending to be fanciful or inventive
IMAGINATIVE, adjective. False or imagined

Dictionary definition

IMAGINATIVE, adjective. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "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".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky