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inventive definition
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Grep of noun inventive inventiveness Overview of adj inventive The adj inventive has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) imaginative, ingenious, inventive -- ((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") Antonyms of adj inventive 1 sense of inventive Sense 1 imaginative, ingenious, inventive INDIRECT (VIA creative) -> uncreative Similarity of adj inventive 1 sense of inventive Sense 1 imaginative, ingenious, inventive => creative (vs. uncreative), originative Attributes of adj inventive Familiarity of adj inventive inventive used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj inventive inventive uninventive Overview of adj inventive The adj inventive has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) imaginative, ingenious, inventive -- ((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")
inventive definition