imaginatively

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
26
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪvlɪj/

Definition of imaginatively

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  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.”
    “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: […]”
    “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.”
    “"[…]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."”

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Etymology

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

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