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
The third-act turn into a 21st century “Oleanna” is effective, with Bartlett inventively intermingling her levels of fiction and cleanly visualizing the inevitable he said/she said conflicts.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
But Browning, who, as I have said, repeated his theory, never repeated his examples: and Sordello is not only clearly varied from Aprile 168and the person in Pauline, but the variations themselves are inventively varied.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
