inventfuladj.
rare.
Full of invention; showing inventiveness.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective]
imaginativec1405
inventivec1450
feigning1483
creativea1513
inventative1541
inventious1591
conceitful1594
forgetive1600
productive1612
projecting1614
excogitous1646
plastic1662
ingeniary1664
formful1730
forgeful1751
inventful1797
original-minded1797
original1803
originative1811
vivid1814
fingent1837
constructive1841
right-brained1871
poietic1905
1797 ‘J. Gifford’ Rem. in Resid. France (T.) The genius of the French government appears powerful only in destruction, and inventful [(ed. 2) I. Pref. 29 inventive] only in oppression.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 146 We have enough, and to spare, of noble inventful pictures.
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