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imaginatively

Syllables: i·ma·gi·na·tive·ly

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British/ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪvlɪj/

imaginatively adverb: in an imaginative manner; showing creativity.

Adverb

imaginatively (comparative more imaginatively, superlative most imaginatively)

  1. In an imaginative manner; showing creativity.
    • Now some imaginatively heterodoxical men are often surprisingly twitted upon their willful inverting of all common-sense notions, their absurd and all-displacing transcendentals, which say three is four, and two and two make ten.1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVIII. Pierre, as a Juvenile Author, Reconsidered.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section II, page 356
    • Longman’s Magazine, immediately after his death, published the following poem, which took a very pathetic touch from the circumstances of its appearance—the more that, while it imaginatively and finely commemorated these days of truant wanderings, it showed the ruling passion for home and the old...1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson, second edition

Antonyms of imaginatively

Forms of imaginatively

comparativemore imaginatively
superlativemost imaginatively

Origin of imaginatively

From Middle English ymaginatyfliche; equivalent to imaginative + -ly.

Questions about imaginatively

What does imaginatively mean?
Imaginatively means in an imaginative manner; showing creativity.
What part of speech is imaginatively?
Imaginatively is an adverb.
How do you pronounce imaginatively?
Imaginatively is pronounced /ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪvlɪj/ (British).

Words near imaginatively in the dictionary

  1. imaginationalism
  2. imaginationless
  3. imaginations
  4. imaginative
  5. imaginative fiction
  6. imaginatively
  7. imaginativeness
  8. imaginativity
  9. imaginator
  10. imaginators
  11. imagine

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