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inventional

inventional

8.4
Showing skill at making new things
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈvɛnʃənl/
translation icon : inventivo
  • The company values employees with an inventional mindset who can develop new products.

Examples

  • Her inventional approach to problem-solving impressed the entire team.

  • Her inventional skills led to groundbreaking technologies.

  • He was praised for his inventional ideas during the design competition.

  • The team focused on inventional methods to solve complex problems.

  • The engineer's inventional designs earned her a prestigious award for innovation.

  • His inventional skills were crucial in developing a new software application.

  • The workshop encouraged participants to adopt an inventional mindset and think creatively.

Synonyms

creative
vsinventional
772 3.3

Showing imagination to make art or new ideas

relates more to making new things specifically rather than general imagination
innovative
vsinventional
165 5.5

Having new ideas or methods to do things better

focuses on being related to making new things rather than applying them
ingenious
vsinventional
75 5.8

Clever and original in solving problems or making useful things

is about being connected to making new things not only clever solutions
inventive
vsinventional
40 3.8

Able to think of new and useful ideas

focuses on being related to making new things rather than general originality
originative
vsinventional
7.9

Able to create new ideas or things

emphasizes relation to starting new things rather than broader change
innovatory
vsinventional
7.2

Introducing new ideas or ways of doing things

is tied to making new things rather than promoting new methods
innovational
vsinventional
6.7

Having new ideas or methods that make things better

refers more to making new things rather than general change or novelty

Antonyms

175 2.8

Doing things in the usual way most people expect, not new or original

Does not show creativity or new ideas

How Inventive

ingenious
75 5.8
inventional
8.4

Surface Forms

inventional positive

Morphology

inventional = invention (transparent) = invent + ion + al

The word is a regular adjective built from 'invention' plus '-al', so its meaning is readily recoverable from the noun base.

Etymology

Inventional comes from the verb invent, which is the same root as invention and inventor and long ago meant 'find' or 'come upon'. So, something inventional shows skill at creating or discovering new things.