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imaginatively en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪvlɪj/ (British, Southern, Standard)
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Etymology

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

Meanings

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:
   • 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. 2014, David Tompkins, “Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:
   • 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: […] 1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson, second edition:
   • "[…]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." 2006, James Buckley, Celebrate Myself, page 12:

Forms

Antonyms

unimaginatively