What are the antonyms for INVENTIVE?
- dull, unresourceful, pedestrian, uninventive, useless, old, canned, infertile, uncreative, imitative, hackneyed, assembly line, stodgy, inept, pedantic, uninspired, unimaginative, cookie-cutter, unproductive, unoriginal, stolen, impractical, derivative.
Synonyms for INVENTIVE
- new,
- craftily,
- natal,
- different,
- crackerjack,
- practical,
- agreeably,
- inspired,
- up to snuff,
- founder,
- underived,
- sarcastic,
- sparkling,
- serpentine,
- avant-garde,
- infant,
- eggheaded,
- forcible,
- pointed,
- discreet,
- causative,
- crafty,
- flair,
- postnatal,
- shaping,
- cleverness,
- tricksy,
- mover,
- wily,
- Forgetive,
- droll,
- visionary,
- dexterous,
- intelligent,
- author,
- shifty,
- seminal,
- beginning,
- resourceful,
- quick on trigger,
- suppositional,
- feline,
- lively,
- fetal,
- politic,
- teeming,
- innovative,
- antenatal,
- prime,
- ingeniously,
- brain,
- clever,
- prodigy,
- most novel,
- ingenious,
- unfamiliar,
- delightfully,
- elemental,
- creation,
- primeval,
- productively,
- original,
- Visioned,
- stealthy,
- untried,
- fundamental,
- Primogenial,
- Trickish,
- perceptive,
- productive,
- handy,
- Clear-headed,
- prolific,
- cagey,
- sophisticated,
- causal,
- budding,
- manipulative,
- joking,
- fruitfully,
- creatively,
- ready,
- creativity,
- calculating,
- phrenic,
- autochthonous,
- more intelligent,
- hyper,
- foxy,
- imagination,
- capacity,
- sagacious,
- primal,
- speculative,
- witty,
- on the ball,
- quick-witted,
- fireball,
- inventively,
- development,
- effectually,
- elementary,
- father,
- breaking new ground,
- coin,
- pleasantly,
- unmatched,
- creative,
- deep-laid,
- on the move,
- deep,
- decoratively,
- all there,
- exceptional,
- originator,
- perspicacious,
- formatively,
- cunning,
- aboriginal,
- unparalleled,
- constructive,
- breakthrough,
- wise,
- hard-working,
- incipient,
- slick,
- prettily,
- effectively,
- initial,
- academic,
- neat,
- Gestatory,
- waggish,
- unique,
- untranslated,
- foundational,
- Inceptive,
- quickest,
- aptitude,
- inchoative,
- keen,
- genuine,
- primitive,
- insidious,
- artful,
- novel,
- arch,
- inspiring,
- in embryo,
- bright,
- clear-sighted,
- artistically,
- adept,
- machiavellian,
- designing,
- canny,
- subtle,
- smooth,
- inventiveness,
- scurrilous,
- diplomatic,
- faculty,
- introductory,
- innovatory,
- having smarts,
- genius,
- fruitful,
- devise,
- creator,
- initiative,
- newfangled,
- beautifully,
- Demiurgic,
- vulpine,
- in the bud,
- quick,
- long-headed,
- skilled,
- knowing,
- pithy,
- dreamy,
- inimitable,
- aesthetically,
- notional,
- fresh,
- groundbreaking,
- originative,
- urbane,
- sophistical,
- Unimitated,
- attractively,
- perky,
- calculated,
- endowed,
- sly,
- fanciful,
- intellectual,
- poetical,
- deceitful,
- more acute,
- Rudimental,
- adroit,
- Subtile,
- tactical,
- ideative,
- alive to,
- tricky,
- comical,
- imaginary,
- smart,
- innovatively,
- Deviceful,
- Frankenstein's Monster,
- guileful,
- aesthetic,
- enterprising,
- fecund,
- strategic,
- rudimentary,
- percipient,
- formative,
- pawky,
- cutting-edge,
- ideational,
- ingenuity,
- cunningly,
- vigorous,
- generative,
- producer,
- innovational,
- imaginative,
- shrewdly,
- dry,
- unexampled,
- active,
- rare,
- inaugural,
- Intellective,
- abecedarian,
- primary,
- newly,
- slippery,
- gifted,
- pregnant,
- acute,
- professional,
- Fertilely,
- prenatal,
- invention,
- inchoate,
- able,
- well-informed,
- endowment,
- Imagining,
- scintillating,
- whipper,
- discovery,
- gracefully,
- conceptive,
- deft,
- just out,
- facetious,
- infantile,
- initiatory,
- sage,
- ability,
- wary,
- farsighted,
- leading-edge,
- supple,
- imaginatively,
- snaky,
- embryonic,
- efficiently,
- artfully,
- Daedalian,
- contrive,
- unprecedented,
- highbrowed,
- fantastic,
- Esemplastic,
- nascent,
- cleverly,
- pleasingly,
- elegantly,
- jocular,
- in its infancy,
- character trait,
- discerning,
- sneaky,
- funny,
- wideawake,
- shrewd,
- unusual,
- firsthand,
- skilful,
- vivid,
- germinal,
- parturient,
- artistic,
- Promethean,
- gift,
- cute,
- procreative,
- design,
- apt,
- incunabular,
- talented,
- felicitous,
- scheming,
- brilliant,
- sharp,
- fertile,
- astute,
- conceptual.
Usage Examples for INVENTIVE
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And his assertion I found confirmed by the critics, who, with one accord, and without being paid, declared these verses proof that the author possessed " a rare inventive genius." - "The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter" by "Pheleg Van Trusedale" A pseudonym for Francis Colburn Adams
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It, too, sometimes revealed the native's inventive tendencies. - "Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century" by Henry Chandlee Forman
