inventive

3 definitions found

inventive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

inventive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  inventive
      adj 1: (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, inventive]

inventive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "inventive":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abecedarian, aboriginal, acute,
     antenatal, arch, artful, astute, autochthonous, beginning, budding,
     cagey, canny, causative, clever, conceptive, conceptual,
     constructive, crafty, creative, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep,
     deep-laid, demiurgic, designing, diplomatic, elemental, elementary,
     embryonic, esemplastic, fecund, feline, fertile, fetal, formative,
     foundational, foxy, fruitful, fundamental, generative, germinal,
     gestatory, guileful, ideational, ideative, imaginative, in embryo,
     in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
     inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, ingenious,
     initial, initiative, initiatory, innovational, innovative,
     insidious, inspired, introductory, knowing, nascent, natal,
     notional, original, originative, parturient, pawky, politic,
     postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval,
     primitive, primogenial, procreative, productive, prolific, ready,
     resourceful, rudimental, rudimentary, scheming, seminal,
     serpentine, shaping, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly,
     smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile,
     subtle, supple, tactical, teeming, trickish, tricksy, tricky, ur,
     visioned, vulpine, wary, wily