inventive
adjective
apt at inventing or thinking up new machines or devices, methods, solutions, etc., or at improvising from what is at hand; innovative or ingenious.
inventively
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a word derived from
inventive.
Example Sentences
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The book’s text was written by French specialists in fashion, fragrance and landscape, and is abundantly and inventively illustrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Chef Kirk Haworth impressed judges by "taking his classical training and inventively adapting it to a vegan diet", Michelin said.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
That's reason enough, but “Mythic Quest” is also always inventively funny and slyly sentimental.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
But it’s also Anderson at his most spiritually, inventively complete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The hypothesis as to how souls of the dead were later elevated to the rank of gods, or supplied models after which such gods might be inventively fashioned, will be criticised in a later chapter.
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
