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English Dictionary: inventive	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for inventive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): imaginative, inventive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inventive \Invent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.] Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive* head or genius. --Dryden. -- {Invent"ively}, adv. -- {Invent"iveness}, n.