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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Originative \O*rig"i*na*tive\, adjective Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. --H. Bushnell. -- {O*rig"i*na*tive*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
originative
adjective
1: having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination" [syn: {creative}] [ant: {uncreative}]
2: having the power to bring into being [syn: {creative}]
3: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: {germinal}, {seminal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "originative": behind the scenes, causal, causative, conceptive, conceptual, constitutive, constructive, creative, decisive, demiurgic, determinative, effectual, esemplastic, etiological, fecund, fertile, formative, generative, germinal, ideational, ideative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, inspired, institutive, inventive, notional, occasional, original, pivotal, pregnant, productive, prolific, seminal, shaping, teeming, visioned
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