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inventive


 
  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