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Definitions for Inventive

[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.
[5] skilled or quick at contriving; ingenious; resourceful
[6] characterized by inventive skill an inventive programme of work
[7] of or relating to invention

Words related to Inventive

ingenious, imaginative, gifted, innovative, original, resourceful, adroit, artistic, avant-garde, constructive, fertile, formative, fruitful, inspired, productive, teeming, innovatory, poetical, causative, demiurgic

Words nearby Inventive

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Origin of Inventive

1400–50; invent + -ive; replacing late Middle English inventif < Middle French

Other words from Inventive

in·ven·tive·ly , adverb
in·ven·tive·ness , noun
pre·in·ven·tive , adjective
un·in·ven·tive , adjective
un·in·ven·tive·ly , adverb

Synonyms for Inventive

gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, original, resourceful, adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, innovational, innovatory, inspired, originative, poetical, productive, teeming