'Inventive' definitions:
Definition of 'inventive'
From: WordNet
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]
Definition of 'Inventive'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inventive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- 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