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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Viktor and Rolf interrogate the tropes of fashion by inventively manipulating the tropes of fashion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 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
For anyone who’s ever felt adrift or behind in life, this keenly observed and inventively structured Argentine tragicomedy mines dry humor from the absurdity of social norms and its protagonist’s downhearted demeanor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
They don’t gate-keep; rather they draw inventively from our motley American larder that spans fast food and chain restaurant nostalgia; regional, seasonal and cultural influences.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024
We Americans are as little neutrals as possible where any aptitude for any action, of whatever kind, that affirms life and freshly and inventively exemplifies it, instead of overwhelming and undermining it, is concerned.
From Within the Rim and Other Essays by Henry James
