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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inventive \In*vent"ive\, adjective [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}, adverb -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {imaginative}, {ingenious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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