inventive
apt at inventing or thinking up new machines or devices, methods, solutions, etc., or at improvising from what is at hand; innovative or ingenious: Luckily the bike mechanic is a most inventive person—you’ll be surprised at what he can do with a piece of wire and some scrap metal.
apt at creating with the imagination:The delightful and tirelessly inventive storyteller is back with an animated stop-motion adventure.
being the product of imagination, resourcefulness, etc.; creative and original: It’s an enthralling, inventive, and wholly unique exhibit from an artist without peer.
relating to or used for inventing: These recordings captured the musician at the height of her inventive power.
Origin of inventive
1Other words from inventive
- in·ven·tive·ly, adverb
- in·ven·tive·ness, noun
- pre·in·ven·tive, adjective
- un·in·ven·tive, adjective
- un·in·ven·tive·ly, adverb
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How to use inventive in a sentence
Since then, 17th Street has seen somewhat of a renaissance, with new and inventive restaurants moving in, everything from Astoria, to Duke’s, to Mikko.
The Shack is the mountain town refuge of Ian Boden, a former Manhattan-based chef and two-time James Beard nominee who creates inventive but hearty meals that rely on the farms scattered through the Shenandoah Valley.
The Ultimate Shenandoah National Park Travel Guide | Graham Averill | October 7, 2020 | Outside OnlineTesla says that Milton knew about the Road Runner concept truck at the time he applied for the design patents Nikola later used to sue Tesla and that Mudri's design "constituted a significant inventive contribution" to the designs Nikola patented.
Nikola patented a stolen truck design, Tesla claims in legal response | Timothy B. Lee | September 24, 2020 | Ars TechnicaAny coach can come in and offer to install an offense that’s more inventive and cuts back on the number of pick and rolls and isolations.
Everything Should Be On The Table For The Houston Rockets. Even James Harden’s Future. | Chris Herring (chris.herring@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 14, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight“The city has been inventive in its use of the tools that are in its toolbox to criminalize the most vulnerable members of our society,” he said.
Those Ticketed for Seditious Language Say Their Only Crime Was Talking Back | Kate Nucci | September 9, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Read too strictly, this would exclude highly inventive works of science fiction and fantasy because they lack realism.
It was all so efficient, and also much more fun and inventive than an app.
How Straight World Stole ‘Gay’: The Last Gasp of the ‘Lumbersexual’ | Tim Teeman | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe last federal position he held was Inmate--he served more than eight years for his inventive approach to acquiring money.
Yet Pee Wee proved to be among the most inventive and seizingly original of all clarinetists.
Edge, one of the most inventive guitarists in rock history, comes off as disinterested.
U2 Generously Gives Us a Lousy Album, Sucks at the Corporate Teat | Hampton Stevens | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis fiery enthusiasm swept aside all difficulties; his inventive genius ever showed him the way to surmount all obstacles.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonHe had a remarkably inventive genius, which he turned to good account in the mechanical portions of his organs.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerNow, youve been skating with Mother Wit and have caught her inventive geniusits contagious.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonHis inventive faculties and his plausible eloquence were no more; and he seemed to have sunk into second childhood.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayHe had been a bachelor with an inventive turn of mind and only one lung when he met the Widow Chisholme at the Springs.
Those Dale Girls | Frank Weston Carruth
British Dictionary definitions for inventive
/ (ɪnˈvɛntɪv) /
skilled or quick at contriving; ingenious; resourceful
characterized by inventive skill: an inventive programme of work
of or relating to invention
Derived forms of inventive
- inventively, adverb
- inventiveness, noun
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