inventive
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3.8
- adjective
- /ɪnˈvɛntɪv/
:
ingenioso
- To solve the tricky problem, the engineer needed to be especially inventive with his designs.
- inventive use
- an inventive mind
- inventive and creative
It's, it's, it's the same sense of bright, inventive joy and discovery.
- It's, it's, it's the same sense of bright, inventive joy and discovery.
- And, and I've always been quite inventive.
- And the camera's moving and they're very inventive.
- But can you be what are the rules that might prevent being completely inventive?
- artistry like that was to me and still to this day, it's like seeing people be truly inventive with makeup. Not in like a like clickbait
- Let other people be The Pioneers and you know, and go down the blind alleys that there's many things that that a new inventive company tries won't work.
- People do their their most inventive and creative work in uncertainty and in predictability.
- It's an incredibly important, inventive and innovative institute that brings together scholarship and art.
- So you know, I can't, no matter how inventive I am, I can't go invent a new kind of brain surgery.
Examples
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However, the artist remained inventive and surprisingly modern in his production of narrative scenes.
Academic text (2000) -
The kids were amazingly inventive at figuring out ways to amuse themselves, using what they had.
Fiction book (1995) -
And on the other hand, we need lots and lots of support to be inventive and innovative.
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There is no end to the things that a creative and inventive society can do for aging bodies.
Academic text (1993) -
Well, it was just a very inventive, well written script and very creative and very ambitious.
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People do their their most inventive and creative work in uncertainty and in predictability.
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Later, having perfected his technical methods, he became ever more inventive with his moving sculpture.
Academic text (1998) -
His methods for avoiding creditors were as inventive as they were elaborate.
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The young artist was praised for her inventive approach to traditional painting techniques.
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His inventive thinking led to the development of several innovative products that changed the industry.
Synonyms
772
3.3
Showing imagination to make art or new ideas
250
3.6
New and different, not copied from others
165
5.5
Having new ideas or methods to do things better
75
5.8
Clever and original in solving problems or making useful things
60
3.7
Having many new and different ideas
Showing skill at making new things
Able to create new ideas or things
Having new ideas or methods that make things better
Introducing new ideas or ways of doing things
Antonyms
How Inventive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inventive comes from the old Latin word invenire, made of in- 'into' and venire 'to come', and it meant 'to come upon' or 'find'. So, to be inventive is like 'finding' new ideas or ways to do things.