a00643863
type | s |
lex_filenum | 00 |
def | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
examples | an imaginative use of material the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman Lewis Mumford an ingenious device had an inventive turn of mind inventive ceramics |
Outgoing links | |
Similar to | creative, originative |
Derivationally related form | inventive → invent; inventive → inventiveness |
Derivationally related form | imaginative → imagine |
Derivationally related form | imaginative → imaginativeness |
Incoming links | |
Similar to | creative, originative |
Derived from adjective | imaginatively → imaginative |
Derived from adjective | inventively → inventive |
Derivationally related form | imaginativeness → imaginative |
Derivationally related form | inventiveness → inventive; invent → inventive |
Derivationally related form | imagine → imaginative |
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