Inventive

a.

1.

Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

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

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