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発音

• IPA: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnətɪv/, /-ənətɪv/, /ɪˈmæd͡ʒnətɪv/
• ハイフネーション: i‧ma‧gi‧na‧tive

形容詞

imaginative (comparative more imaginative, superlative most imaginative)

1. Having a lively or creative imagination.

   an imaginative boy

   • 1951 December, Helen Weissenstein, “Readers' Forum”, in Chess Review:

     No doubt kibitzers are highly imaginative. How else could they see wins and brilliant combinations that do not exist?

2. Tending to be fanciful or inventive.

   an imaginative story

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 379:

     From this point of view all philosophy is idealism, an imaginative embellishment of scientific knowledge; and, sure enough, Engels prophesies the decline and extinction of philosophy.

3. False or imagined.

派生語