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Inventive

Inventive Meaning & Definition
Inventive Definition And Meaning

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

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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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