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inventive - 4 dictionary results

in⋅ven⋅tive

[in-ven-tiv]
–adjective
1. apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
2. apt at creating with the imagination.
3. having the function of inventing.
4. pertaining to, involving, or showing invention.

Origin:
1400–50; invent + -ive; r. late ME inventif < MF
Language Translation for : inventive
Spanish: inventivo, German: erfinderisch, Japanese: 発明の才がある
in·ven·tive     (ĭn-věn'tĭv)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or characterized by invention.
  2. Adept or skillful at inventing; creative.

in·ven'tive·ly adv., in·ven'tive·ness n.
inventive

adjective
(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

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. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.

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