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originative

originative

7.9
Able to create new ideas or things
  • adjective
  • /ˈɔrɪdʒɪnətɪv/
translation icon : originativo
  • Her originative thoughts in the brainstorming session led to a breakthrough in the project.

Examples

  • This means, above all, a tendency to understand thinking as responsive rather than originative.

    Academic text (1993)
  • And even if human behavior were partially attributable to some random element, that would do nothing to endow us with originative agenthood.

    Academic text (1996)
  • We want to believe that in some essential respect the self stands outside of nature and culture, bearing originative responsibility for its acts.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Our concept of moral responsibility need not rest on the myth of originative agency but only on the necessity for social order.

    Academic text (1996)
  • But it also rules out any personal spirit, soul, or inner agent that possesses a special originative capacity not found elsewhere in nature.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The artist's originative approach to painting surprised everyone at the gallery.

  • Innovative technology often stems from originative ideas that challenge traditional methods.

Synonyms

creative
vsoriginative
772 3.3

Showing imagination to make art or new ideas

focuses more generally on the power to make new things
innovative
vsoriginative
165 5.5

Having new ideas or methods to do things better

emphasizes personal ability to make things rather than the new result
inventive
vsoriginative
40 3.8

Able to think of new and useful ideas

is wider, covering general ability to make original ideas or works
seminal
vsoriginative
  • Formal
30 8.0

An original idea or work that strongly influences later developments

is about an individual's power to make new ideas rather than influence
generative
vsoriginative
2 7.3

Having the ability to make or produce new things

is the broader personal ability to make new ideas or things
inventional
vsoriginative
8.4

Showing skill at making new things

is less technical and applies to general creative power
innovational
vsoriginative
6.7

Having new ideas or methods that make things better

is about the ability to make or invent rather than the action outcome

Antonyms

26 7.2

Very similar to another person's work and not original

2 4.3

Not having new ideas or ways of doing things

How Creative

trailblazing
1 5.6
innovative
165 5.5
inventive
40 3.8
originative
7.9
creative
772 3.3

Surface Forms

originative positive

Morphology

originative = originate (transparent) = originate + ive

The adjective is formed from the verb 'originate' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ive', so the meaning 'having the ability to create' follows directly.

Etymology

The word originative comes from the root origin, which means 'beginning' and appears in the word original. So to be originative is to make a new beginning or to create fresh ideas.