imaginative.

Showing a creative or resourceful use of imagination.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• imaginative interpretation
• imaginative design

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The imaginative interpretation connected details the earlier account had left separate.

The design was imaginative while remaining workable under the stated constraints.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more imaginative; superlative most imaginative where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: narrative transformation, conception and possibility, memory representation, anticipatory detail. Disciplines: literary writing, advanced general English, narrative analysis. Commonness: moderately common.