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INVENTIVE
imaginative, inventive
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
inventive (comparative more inventive, superlative most inventive)
Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
Purposefully fictive
Source: Wiktionary
In*vent"ive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. inventif.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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