World

What is the difference between the two below?

Those are the characters in his imaginary world. This world is not real. It exists only in his imagination.

Those are the characters in his imaginative world. This world has attributes (eg originality) that show he has a good imagination.

imaginary: not real but only created in your mind

A lonely child sometimes creates an imaginary friend to play with.

imaginative: used about someone who has new, different, or exciting ideas
He was more imaginative than most history teachers.

Mister Micawber.imaginative: used about someone who has new, different, or exciting ideasHe was more imaginative than most history teachers.

MM, do you think "imaginative" can be used only for people?

It doesn't seem like Clive sees any problem with "imaginative world".

TakaMM, do you think "imaginative" can be used only for people?

Of course not. If you check the dictionary, you will see that I pulled only the most appropriate definition for your case.

So even if the "world" doesn't have the possessive in front (e.g an imaginative world), it still works and implies that the world was created by someone with a good imagination?

It is hard to imagine the whole world as being imaginative, isn't it? You should confine your presumptions to the reasonable: an imaginative author, an imaginative novel, an imaginative movie, etc.

So grammatically "an imaginative world" works, and it depends on context what/who has a good imagination.

Is that what you mean, MM?

That's how I read it, yes.

Good!

Thank you, MM (and Clive, of course).