inventive

About 1.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.

   an inventive pursuit

2. adjective Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.

   an inventive fellow

3. adjective Purposely fictive.

   an inventive story

Similar words

creative imaginative originative ingenious innovative innovation groundbreaking invention resourceful crafty

Often followed by

genius and activity step in mind faculty powers power

Word family

inventively inventiveness inventivenesses