inventive

Meaning

  1. Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
  2. Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
  3. Purposely fictive.

Frequency

22k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈvɛntɪv/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English inventif, inventyfe, borrowed from Old French inventif, borrowed from Medieval Latin inventivus. By surface analysis, invent + -ive.

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