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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope