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| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up*, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ingenious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever; brilliant |
| Synonyms: | able, adroit, artistic, bright, canny, crafty, creative, cunning, dexterous, gifted, imaginative, innovative, intelligent, inventive, original, ready, resourceful, shrewd, skillful, sly, subtle, deviceful, innovational, innovatory |
| Antonyms: | awkward, dumb, ignorant, incompetent, inept, stupid |
| Main Entry: | intelligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
| Synonyms: | able, acute, alert, alive, apt, astute, brainy*, bright, brilliant, calculating, capable, clever, creative, deep*, discerning, enlightened, exceptional, highbrow*, imaginative, ingenious, instructed, inventive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, original, penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, profound, quick, quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, resourceful, responsible, sage, sharp, smart, thinking, together*, understanding, well-informed, whiz*, wise, witty, all there, comprehending |
| Antonyms: | foolish, idiotic, imbecile, stupid, unintelligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, constructive, fertile, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspired, original, productive, resourceful, teeming, breaking new ground, causative, demiurgic, deviceful, forgetive, innovational, innovatory, originative, poetical |
| Antonyms: | stolen, unoriginal, uncreative, uninventive |
| Main Entry: | poetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition |
| Synonyms: | dramatic, elegiac, epic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, romantic, tuneful, anapestic, dactylic, epical, epodic, iambic, metrical, odic, rhythmical, songlike |
| Antonyms: | prosaic |
| Main Entry: | theoretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, analytical, assumed, conjectural, contingent, general, ideal, imaginative, impractical, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, on paper*, pedantic, philosophical, pure, quixotic, speculative, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unsubstantiated, vague, as a premise, codified, formalistic, formularized, idealized, ideational, ideological, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, notional, postulated, presumed, problematical, suppositional, unproved |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, factual, real, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, satisfying to senses |
| Synonyms: | aesthetic, creative, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful, cultivated, pictorial, rhythmical |
| Antonyms: | distasteful, horrible, inelegant, ugly |
| Main Entry: | fantastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, different; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, far-fetched, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical, fictional, hallucinatory, phantasmagorical, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | legendary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious but well known |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, apocryphal, customary, doubtful, dubious, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, imaginary, imaginative, improbable, mythical, related, romantic, storied, traditional, unreal, created, fabricated, figmental, handed-down, invented, mythological, told, unhistoric, unhistorical, unverifiable |
| Antonyms: | factual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | mental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning the mind |
| Synonyms: | brainy*, cerebral, clairvoyant, deep, heavy, imaginative, immaterial, inner, intellectual, mysterious, psychic, psychological, rational, reasoning, spiritual, subconscious, subjective, thinking, thoughtful, unreal, ideological, intellective, phrenic, psychical, subliminal, telepathic |
| Antonyms: | body, physical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being skilled in creative activity |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, artful, arty, crafty, discriminating, gifted, imaginative, inventive, skillful, talented, artsy-craftsy |
| Antonyms: | scientific |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
| Synonyms: | creative, fertile, formative, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspiring, inventive, novel, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual, avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, generative, innovational, innovatory, originative |
| Antonyms: | borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | pregnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant, meaningful |
| Synonyms: | charged, cogent, consequential, creative, eloquent, expressive, fecund, imaginative, important, inventive, loaded, momentous, original, pointed, redolent, rich, seminal, sententious, suggestive, telling, weighty |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, trivial, unmeaningful |
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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