About The Word Inventive
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Inventive
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What's The Definition Of Inventive?
[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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Inventive: creative | imaginative | ingenious | originative Related Terms | Find terms related to Inventive: abecedarian | aboriginal | acute | antenatal | arch | artful | astute | autochthonous | beginning | budding | cagey | canny | causative | clever | conceptive | conceptual | constructive | crafty | creative | cunning | cute | deceitful | deep | deep-laid | demiurgic | designing | diplomatic | elemental | elementary | embryonic | esemplastic | fecund | feline | fertile | fetal | formative | foundational | foxy | fruitful | fundamental | generative | germinal | gestatory | guileful | ideational | ideative | imaginative | in embryo | in its infancy | in the bud | inaugural | inceptive | inchoate | inchoative | incipient | incunabular | infant | infantile | ingenious | initial | initiative | initiatory | innovational | innovative | insidious | inspired | introductory | knowing | Machiavellian | Machiavellic | nascent | natal | notional | original | originative | parturient | pawky | politic | postnatal | pregnant | prenatal | primal | primary | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | procreative | productive | prolific | ready | resourceful | rudimental | rudimentary | scheming | seminal | serpentine | shaping | sharp | shifty | shrewd | slick | slippery | sly | smooth | snaky | sneaky | sophistical | stealthy | strategic | subtile | subtle | supple | tactical | teeming | trickish | tricksy | tricky | ur | visioned | vulpine | wary | wily See Also | Inventive In Webster's Dictionary \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.]
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at
expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. --
{In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n.
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