inventive
Origin of inventive
Related Words for inventiveness
ingenuity, resourcefulness, originality, imagination, creativeness, innovation, development, contraption, gizmo, apparatus, opus, ingeniousness, gadget, doodad, novelty, genius, concoction, design, contrivance, creativityExamples from the Web for inventiveness
Contemporary Examples of inventiveness
My father excelled in business above all by imagination and inventiveness.
Sometimes Chinese inventiveness is just process innovation or casual repurposing of existing technologies.
Her brashness, inventiveness, and inexhaustible energy carried her the rest of the way.
The variety and inventiveness of English is arranged on the pages not as dry text but as a living tapestry of language.
Wunnerfitz! Sollybuster! The Fun of the Dictionary of American Regional EnglishAmmon Shea
April 12, 2012
Our inventiveness and drive have made America “not just a place on a map, but a light to the world.”
Historical Examples of inventiveness
Challenges of this kind to inventiveness and activity are outstanding all the time.
Rural Life and the Rural SchoolJoseph Kennedy
But I did not invest my inventiveness wisely; I should have shared the idea with Barnum.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Surely it won't hazard his inventiveness: it will develop it.
Red Pepper BurnsGrace S. Richmond
It was won, if not precisely with inventiveness, at least with "brains."
InventionBradley A. Fiske
Certainly New York is the town for novelty and inventiveness.
Wanted: A CookAlan Dale
inventive
- skilled or quick at contriving; ingenious; resourceful
- characterized by inventive skillan inventive programme of work
- of or relating to invention
Word Origin and History for inventiveness
inventive
early 15c., "skilled in invention," from Old French inventif (15c.), from Latin invent-, past participle stem of invenire (see invention). Related: Inventively; inventiveness.