imaginative

Everyday

1. Good at thinking of new, clever or creative ideas. tree →
2. Showing creativity and new ideas: «an imaginative story». tree →

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.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: In the Sefer Yetzirah's path called the Imaginative Intelligence, it is said to give likeness to all created forms. In the primary 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

• The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes, which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
• The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelli- gence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) 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.