inventive
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | skilled or quick at contriving; ingenious; resourceful |
| 2. | characterized by inventive skill: an inventive programme of work |
| 3. | of or relating to invention |
| in'ventively | |
| —adv | |
| in'ventiveness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Artists' books exemplify the creative and inventive abilities of their makers.
And inventive new ways of being poor continue to emerge.
Though the console pushes the envelope graphically, its first line of games isn't nearly as inventive.
His inventive canvases combine strong form with delicate shadings uncommon among his contemporaries.
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