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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#m1)

2) Showing creativity and new ideas: «an imaginative story». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#x1)
- Imaginative play helps young children learn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#x2)
- He found an imaginative way to fix the broken kite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#x3)
- The artist's paintings are bright and imaginative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#x4)
- Be imaginative and invent your own monster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#x5)
- The class came up with imaginative ideas for the school fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imaginative/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.