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imaginative

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnətɪv/ adjective B1
  1. Having a lively or creative imagination. · an imaginative boy
  2. Tending to be fanciful or inventive. · an imaginative story
  3. False or imagined.
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Isn’t that a nice imaginative name?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 25 · C1
Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 173 · C1
In the Academy Anne gradually drew a little circle of friends about her, thoughtful, imaginative, ambitious students like herself.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 299 · C1
There may be an occasional want of imaginative intuition down there, but they lead the world for thoroughness and method.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 88 · B2

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