Inventive \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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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" [syn: imaginative, ingenious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "inventive":
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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