Synonyms for imaginative
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Creative
Other
fanciful, visionary, fantastic, poetical, conceptive, esemplastic
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having a lively or creative imagination.
Related words
- Word family
- imaginativeness imaginativity
- Phrases
- imaginative fiction
Example sentences
- creative Protest takes ever more creative forms in Tatoeba.
- inventive Edison was an inventive genius of the United States.
- fantastic It would be fantastic if you could do that for me.
- visionary Will Apple lose its mojo now that its visionary founder is dead?
- fanciful His ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| imaginative | falling | |
| creative | rising | |
| inventive | rising | |
| originative | steady | |
| fantastic | rising | |
| visionary | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- original4, creative3, fanciful3, poetical4
- 9 letters
- fantastic3, visionary4, inventive3
- 10 letters
- conceptive
- 11 letters
- originative, esemplastic
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (original4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- imaginatif
- Italiano
- immaginativo
- Español
- imaginativo