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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inventive adj : (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}, {ingenious}]
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