a. | 1. | Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; |
Adj. | 1. | inventive - (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" Synonyms: imaginative, ingenious |