Associations to the word «Inventive»

Wiktionary

INVENTIVE, adjective. Of, or relating to invention.
INVENTIVE, adjective. Creative, or skilful at inventing.

Dictionary definition

INVENTIVE, adjective. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne