imaginative

/i'mædʤinətiv/

Thân thiện

A child draws an imaginative picture of a dragon flying over a castle.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Characterized by or showing creativity, inventiveness, and the ability to form new ideas or images in the mind: Describes a person, their mind, or their work that demonstrates originality and the power to create novel concepts, solutions, or artistic expressions. 2. Resulting from or using imagination: Describes something that is not merely a copy of reality but is created or conceived through the imaginative faculty.

Examples of Usage

• Describing a person:
  • She is a highly imaginative child who creates elaborate stories for her toys.
  • The company is looking for an imaginative designer who can think outside the box.
• Describing an idea, work, or solution:
  • The architect presented an imaginative design for the new museum.
  • The teacher used imaginative methods to make the history lesson more engaging.
  • It was an imaginative solution to a difficult problem.

Advanced Usage

• "Imaginative leap": A sudden, creative insight or connection between seemingly unrelated ideas.
  • The theory required a great imaginative leap to connect quantum physics with ancient philosophy.
• "Imaginative literature/writing": A category of writing, such as fiction, poetry, and drama, that is created from the imagination rather than being strictly factual.
  • Her PhD focused on 19th-century imaginative literature.

Variants and Related Words

• Imagination (n): The faculty or action of forming new ideas, images, or concepts not present to the senses.
  • The novel captures the imagination of readers.
• Imagine (v): To form a mental image or concept of something not present to the senses.
  • Can you imagine a world without the internet?
• Imaginatively (adv): In a way that shows imagination.
  • The room was imaginatively decorated with recycled materials.

Synonyms

• Creative: Having the ability to produce original and unusual ideas.
• Inventive: Skilled at inventing new things or methods.
• Ingenious: Clever, original, and inventive.
• Visionary: Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.

Antonyms

• Unimaginative: Lacking imagination; not creative.
• Practical: Concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.
• Literal: Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• inventive