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inventive
[in-ven-tiv]
adjective
apt at inventing or thinking up new machines or devices, methods, solutions, etc., or at improvising from what is at hand; innovative or ingenious.
Luckily the bike mechanic is a most inventive person—you’ll be surprised at what he can do with a piece of wire and some scrap metal.
apt at creating with the imagination.
The delightful and tirelessly inventive storyteller is back with an animated stop-motion adventure.
being the product of imagination, resourcefulness, etc.; creative and original.
It’s an enthralling, inventive, and wholly unique exhibit from an artist without peer.
relating to or used for inventing.
These recordings captured the musician at the height of her inventive power.
inventive
/ ɪnˈvɛntɪv /
adjective
skilled or quick at contriving; ingenious; resourceful
characterized by inventive skill
an inventive programme of work
of or relating to invention
Other Word Forms
- inventiveness noun
- inventively adverb
- preinventive adjective
- uninventive adjective
- uninventively adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of inventive1
Example Sentences
The five-year, £80m restoration of the Big Ben tower in London has been nominated for the UK's leading architecture award, alongside a new fashion college campus, a science laboratory and an "inventive" home extension.
Besides its musical offerings, Gothicumbia has developed a reputation for harboring the most inventive Latin goth fashion.
He added: "Mark's videos are so clever and inventive, it's easy to forget that they're educational".
It’s inventive gimmickry, but it makes the sweetness a concocted thing rather than a natural outgrowth of the material and setting and mood.
Strong on the drive and with her inventive reverse sweeps, she put on 57 in just 29 balls with Paige Scholfield, who made 25 not out from 16.
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