Imaginative
[ɪ'mædʒɪnətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; 'an imaginative use of material'; 'the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman'- Lewis Mumford; 'an ingenious device'; 'had an inventive turn of mind'; 'inventive ceramics' .
錄入:斯科特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
(a.) Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
(a.) Unreasonably suspicious; jealous.
編輯:利拉
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Inventive, creative, poetical.
錄入:洛伦佐
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Creative, conceptive, ideal, poetical, romantic, inventive, original
ANT:Unimaginative, unpoetical, unromantic, prosaic, matter-of-fact, literal,uninventive
整理:玛丽
例句/造句/用法:
- But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Did the Azilians play with these pebbles or tell a story with them, as imaginative children will do with bits of wood and stone nowadays? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A visual image, or mental picture, is popularly taken as characteristic of the imaginative process. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I am sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Above all a reasonable and practical proposal must not require any imaginative patience. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is a considerable imaginative appeal in the obscure story of the early American civilizations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Whatever initiative and imaginative vision he possesses will be called into play and control his impulses and habits. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But there were plenty of contradictions in his imaginative demands. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Science is still too recent to have been absorbed into imaginative and emotional disposition. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- More alert and imaginative than other boys, and with an uncommonly good memory, he made great headway at Mr. Coryton’s grammar school, where he went when he was six. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But Newland Archer was too imaginative not to feel that, in his case and May's, the tie might gall for reasons far less gross and palpable. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- A sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative man, Mr Flintwinch, must be that, or nothing! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That sense of an impersonal machine going on with endless reiteration is an experience that imaginative politicians face. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Unless such activity reacts to enlarge the imaginative vision of life, it is on a level with the busy work of children. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But a politician with some imaginative interest in genuine affairs need not be seduced into the learned folly of pretending that reality is something else than it is. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It is Adeimantus who is the respondent in the more argumentative, as Glaucon in the lighter and more imaginative portions of the Dialogue. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In the sense of being accompanied by imagery all thinking is imaginative. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Theory, and--to some extent--practice, have advanced far enough to recognize that play-activity is an imaginative enterprise. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It continued to be a theme of curious interest to the imaginative, and the subject of much fiction, while its neglected commercial possibilities were still more or less vaguely referred to. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There's no family pride about me, there's no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- That is why imaginative socialists have shown so great an interest in syndicalism. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The real life of the ordinary man is his everyday life, his little circle of affections, fears, hungers, lusts, and imaginative impulses. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was naturally sceptical of the imaginative will, and with a great respect for and comprehension of established fact. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In that respect he had an imaginative greatness Napoleon lacked. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Thus old Featherstone was imaginative, after his fashion. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When a man tells me anything about imaginative qualities, I always tell that man, whoever he is, that I know what he means. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
整理:玛丽