- 1(especially of people) able to think of new and interesting ideas synonym imaginative She has a highly inventive mind.
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- 2(of ideas) new and interesting This is a courageous and inventive piece of film-making.
adverb
noun [uncountable] the inventiveness of modern advertisingSee inventive in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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