Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inventive"
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) 1.7 (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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