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Meaning of 'inventive' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Inventive [ a.]
- Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

Meaning of 'inventive' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . inventive [ s]
Meaning (1):
- (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
Example in sentence:
  • an imaginative use of material;
  • an ingenious device;
  • had an inventive turn of mind;
  • inventive ceramics;
  • the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman

Nearby Words:

invade invaded invader invading invaginate invaginated invagination invalescence invaletudinary invalid

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