imaginative

«imaginative» in Mova's school dictionary: Good at thinking of new, clever or creative ideas — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (imaginative, more imaginative, most imaginative)

meaning for a pupil

1) Good at thinking of new, clever or creative ideas. tree →

2) Showing creativity and new ideas: «an imaginative story». tree →

sense in the lessons

In school, teachers praise imaginative writing, art and play. In stories it describes creative children and inventors. Phrases: an imaginative story, imaginative play, imaginative ideas, highly imaginative.

examples

• Mia wrote an imaginative story about a talking teapot. tree →
• Imaginative play helps young children learn. tree →
• He found an imaginative way to fix the broken kite. tree →
• The artist's paintings are bright and imaginative. tree →
• Be imaginative and invent your own monster. tree →
• The class came up with imaginative ideas for the school fair. tree →
• For all these reasons, then, Celtic folk-tales are of high scientific interest to the folk-lorist, while they yield to none in imaginative and literary qualities. tree →

note

Related: imagine, imagination, imaginary (not real). Do not confuse «imaginative» (creative) with «imaginary» (made up, not real): an imaginary friend; an imaginative child.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «imaginative» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.