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.
inventiveness
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a word derived from
inventive.
Example Sentences
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Danish chef Rasmus Munk has a reputation for inventiveness and is calling on his peers to think about future food resilience.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
With increasing altitude and inventiveness and shrinking landing space.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
For a Rangers side crying out for attacking guile and inventiveness on the flanks, Curtis being limited to just eight minutes in their Premiership opener against United was surprising.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Like Zach Cregger with “Weapons” or Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms,” Barker built on the run-and-gun inventiveness of the sketch-group internet scene to helm a culture-shifting horror hit on a minuscule budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
