imaginativelyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪvlɪj/
• ハイフネーション: i‧ma‧gi‧na‧tive‧ly

副詞

imaginatively (comparative more imaginatively, superlative most imaginatively)

1. In an imaginative manner; showing creativity.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson, second edition:

     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 haunts, strongly and vividly, even not unnigh to death: […]

   • 2014, David Tompkins, “Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy”, in Los Angeles Review of Books‎:

     The Southern Reach books imaginatively figure this contact. The beauty of the books is that they let the other side win. They offer a collapsitarianism in reverse.

   • 2006, James Buckley, Celebrate Myself, page 12:

     " […] Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong here, Danny, but wasn't it you who told me that true shoegazing began and ended with Slowdive's 12-inch debut: the imaginatively titled, 'Slowdive'?”
     “You're taking me out of context here, dude. What I meant was that it was the epoch of the genre. The other bands still made a valid contribution, they just didn't define the moment."

反意語

• unimaginatively