Inventive Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-vĕntĭv
Characterized by or productive of new things or new ideas
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ingenious
  2. creative
  3. innovative
  4. imaginative
  5. adept
  6. clever
  7. demiurgic
  8. innovatory
  9. fertile
  10. original
  11. resourceful
  12. skillful
Antonyms:
  1. unimaginative
  2. uninventive
  3. unoriginal
  4. uncreative
  5. stolen
Not the same as what was previously known or done
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. new
  2. different
  3. fresh
  4. innovative
  5. newfangled
  6. novel
  7. original
  8. unfamiliar
  9. unprecedented
Able to use the means at one's disposal to meet situations effectively
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ingenious
  2. resourceful

Words Related to Inventive

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Inventive Sentence Examples

  • You have to be inventive, try to get into the criminal mind, think of all the angles....

  • Parents can be quite inventive in their quest for affordable childcare.

  • Successive generations of Queen's students have proved ever more inventive in entertaining themselves.

  • But any real mother knows bribery starts from before babies can talk, and gets more inventive every day.

  • S.O.S. is another wildly inventive black comedy from one of Britain's funniest writers.

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