inventively
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4.9
- adverb
- /ɪnˈvɛntɪvli/
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creativamente
- The children inventively turned the old cardboard boxes into a fort.
Examples
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The artist inventively designed a sculpture using recycled materials.
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Reading The Book of Illusions as engaging inventively with the relationship between emotions and aesthetics, despite its refusal to produce an emotional payoff for the reader, I argue that it is when works appear coldest that they may be doing the most transformative work" (Affect 27).
Academic text (2017) -
And you're not even doing it inventively.
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What I am concerned with here is what has been imagined from these realities and inventively applied to others.
Academic text (1992) -
No, death stalks the circus much less dramatically, much more inventively.
Blog text (5) -
God's presence in our midst; some contemporary poets are inventively recasting the figure of Jesus.
Academic text (2000) -
He could put together a tight, gripping newscast; he could draw a story out of a vacuum; he could inventively defy time in making deadlines.
Fiction book (1992) -
The motivation for a community of practice as a theory of learning is the emerging view, consistent with the management literature, that organizations benefit most when their members participate "inventively in practices that can never be fully captured by institutionalized processes" (Wenger 1998, 10).
Academic text (2000) -
It was such a pathetic attempt to nail down and pigeonhole this sprawling metafiction that plays with time and space so inventively yet remains deeply human that I just trashed it all and went to bed.
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The folky, harmonic pop of NYC trio the Spring Standards has been in production since 2008 and is now available in their inventively packaged double EP, Yellow/Gold, released this past May.
Blog text (32)
Synonyms
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3.5
In a way that uses new ideas to make things or solve problems
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5.7
In a creative, skillful way that shows careful planning
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5.5
In a clever way that uses new ideas to solve problems
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4.1
In a creative way that uses new ideas
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4.6
In a new way that uses fresh ideas to solve problems
How Inventive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word inventively comes from the Latin invenire, which means 'to come upon' or 'find'. Like an inventor who finds a new idea, to act inventively means using new ideas to solve problems.