Synonyms for inventive
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Creative
creative, ingenious, imaginative, clever, resourceful, original, fertile, sharp, originative, unimitative
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
Related words
- Word family
- inventiveness inventivity
Example sentences
- creative Protest takes ever more creative forms in Tatoeba.
- clever The dog was so clever that he seemed almost human.
- imaginative I struggle to understand their imaginative worlds.
- ingenious The ingenious boy won a prize for his invention.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inventive | rising | |
| creative | rising | |
| clever | rising | |
| imaginative | falling | |
| ingenious | falling | |
| innovatory | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- sharp1
- 6 letters
- clever2
- 7 letters
- fertile2
- 8 letters
- original4, creative3
- 9 letters
- ingenious3
- 10 letters
- innovatory
- 11 letters
- imaginative5, resourceful3, originative, unimitative
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (clever2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inventif
- Deutsch
- erfinderisch