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overimaginative

Definitions

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  • adjective Excessively imaginative; to a fault.

Etymologies

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over- + imaginative

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Examples

  • There are times when I regret the decision to hide in plain sight, fictionalizing accounts of my activities in the pages of The Wraith Magazine so that any reports of a silver masked figure seen lurking in the streets of Recondito will be written off as an overimaginative reader with more costuming skill than sense.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • There are times when I regret the decision to hide in plain sight, fictionalizing accounts of my activities in the pages of The Wraith Magazine so that any reports of a silver masked figure seen lurking in the streets of Recondito will be written off as an overimaginative reader with more costuming skill than sense.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Twenty years later, yuppies all over the world will pay fortunes for any old studio described by overimaginative Realtors as “lofts,” but back then they were cold spaces in deserted and often undesirable parts of town.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • Ages 6 to 9: They may be overimaginative and susceptible to scare stories about the war.

    When Little Children Have Big Worries 2008

  • It seems to be about an overimaginative kid's summer vacation.

    Has Anybody Seen Mo Xiaobai's Sea Monster Diary? 2007

  • It seems to be about an overimaginative kid's summer vacation.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • That the whole 'people just aren't THAT into reading' is some myth weaved by my overimaginative and ridiculously huge mind?

    Recognising Local Writers Sharon Bakar 2005

  • I suspect such a dangerously overimaginative and overreactive, worlds-within-worlds (in one's paltry, overheated head), atmosphere was rife in nuclear-war circles in the early 'sixties, and responsible for placing all of us in the gravest of dangers.

    The Worst Form of Paranoia 2006

  • Vihti went off muttering under her breath, probably about flighty, overimaginative Lagoans.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • When Fernao went out to the blockhouse with Pekka and Ilmarinen and the three newly arrived theoretical sorcerers, he didn't think he was the overimaginative one.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

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