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generative

generative

2 7.3
Having the ability to make or produce new things
  • adjective
  • /ˈdʒɛnərətɪv/
translation icon : generativo
  • The artist's workshop fosters a generative environment where new ideas can flourish.
  • generative strategy
  • generative principle
  • generative theory

But that's how I see the same generative love that out of which God created us.

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Examples

  • The results support the use of generative strategies for improving problem-solving performance in children with MD.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The six-step strategy noted previously is an example of a generative approach to word learning.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Where, where do you think we can go with this generative potential?

  • The thinking is in the service of what is generative, right?

  • So it's an incredibly generative state, right?

  • The general approach is going to be to build a generative model for disease progression.

  • Are we envisioning consequences for student learning that are not final but instead are generative to subsequent learning?

    Academic text (2013)
  • And so if we can help this group of people feel less lonely, feel more empowered, we are offering this generative, resilient thing to them.

  • The results suggest that solution accuracy for children with MD improved as a function of generative training.

    Academic text (2013)
  • So while Butler's works are theoretically generative, they are practically and politically more complicated.

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

creative
vsgenerative
772 3.3

Showing imagination to make art or new ideas

is a more general power to make things without stressing imagination
productive
vsgenerative
293 3.5

Able to do a lot and get useful results

is about the basic ability to make things rather than result quantity
originative
vsgenerative
7.9

Able to create new ideas or things

is the general ability to make or give rise to things
creational
vsgenerative
6.9

Relating to the process of making something new

is the broader capacity to produce results, not only the process
germinative
vsgenerative
  • Specialized
7.9

Something that causes new growth or new ideas

is wider, covering making things beyond just starting growth
progenitive
vsgenerative
  • Archaic
9.5

Able to produce offspring or new things

is broader, applying to making many kinds of things beyond offspring

Antonyms

243 4.2

Causing great damage or harm

noncreative
  • Offensive
7.9

A person who lacks imagination or new ideas

Compounds

generative grammar
  • Specialized
8.4

A theory that explains how rules make all correct sentences and shows their structure

A creative thought that leads to new ideas or work

generative learning
  • Specialized
7.9

Learning where students make links between new information and what they already know

generative learning
  • Specialized
8.1

Computer method that teaches a program to create new data like images

How Generative

innovative
165 5.5
creative
772 3.3
generative
2 7.3
productive
293 3.5
unproductive
21 3.8

Surface Forms

generative positive

Morphology

generative = generate (transparent) = generate + ive

Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ive' to the verb 'generate', yielding 'having the ability to produce'.

Etymology

Generative comes from the Latin root generare, which means 'to produce' or 'beget', and you can see the same idea in generate and generation. So, something generative is able to make or create new things.