fantastical vs imaginative

fantastical

adj
  • Fanciful or whimsical. 

  • Fantastic. 

  • Of or pertaining to fantasy. 

imaginative

adj
  • Tending to be fanciful or inventive. 

  • Having a lively or creative imagination. 

  • False or imagined. 

How often have the words fantastical and imaginative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )