Synonyms:
imaginative, inventive
Meaning: (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"
Usage examples
"I didn't use to--except when I was particularly imaginative, but now, I really do--I'm a regular fool about it."
A hostile word, by starting a contrary imaginative current, buffets them rudely and threatens to dissolve their being.
It will be interesting to some of my readers to know what was the character of her purely imaginative writing at this period.
Yes, it was true; to this imaginative child everything was a story; and the more books she read, the more imaginative she became.
Hero-worship is an imaginative passion in which latent ideals assume picturesque shapes and take actual persons for their symbols.
The ease with which she assimilates the city life when in it, making it a part of her imaginative tapestry, is a sign of the power to which she has grown.
This ambiguity is most conspicuous, perhaps, in the most absorbing of the personages which a man constructs in this imaginative fashion--his idea of himself.
In the imaginative pictures the principle begins to be applied more largely, till throughout the fairy story the figures float in and out from the unknown, as fancies should.
At another time, in the flat-woods of Port Orange (I hope I am not taxing my reader's credulity too far, or making myself out a man of too imaginative an ear), I heard the bleating of sheep.
But so far as I was concerned this odd settlement of pleasure-squatters was a mystery as well as a surprise, enhanced rather than mitigated by an imaginative suggestion or so I had received from the wooden-legged man at Shaphambury.