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单词 inventive
释义

inventive

/ɪnˈvɛntɪv /
adjective
1Having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally: the most inventive composer of his time...
  • Even as the game slid away from Hibs in the second half, they were inventive enough to create two clear scoring opportunities.
  • Stone uses his gifts as a scenarist to create a unique, inventive uplifting story.
  • Their mistake was in putting too much faith in the law and too little in their own ability to be inventive.
1.1Showing creativity or original thought: a courageous and inventive piece of film-making...
  • Those scissors remind me of the creative inventive and resourceful things my mother did.
  • Liam is a bright and talented lad, and he and his friends already run inventive scams to get money.
  • The company has a reputation for inventive adaptations, ingenious design and musical innovation.

Synonyms

creative, original, innovational, innovative, imaginative, fertile, ingenious, resourceful;
artistic, inspired, gifted, talented, virtuoso, accomplished, masterly, skilful, clever
informal genius
original, innovative, unusual, fresh, novel, new;
experimental, offbeat, quirky, avant garde, forward-looking, groundbreaking;
unfamiliar, unorthodox, unconventional, alternative, fringe;
North American left-field

Derivatives

inventively

/ɪnˈvɛntɪvli / adverb ...
  • It struck me that, typical for our age, the depiction of the horrific was astonishingly and inventively successful while the presentation of the beatific was, comparatively, shallow and disappointing.
  • Local institution Michael Yonkers has been having his own way with music for over 30 years, creating unheard sounds from inventively designed homemade guitars.
  • A microphone was positioned to the far left of the stage and he periodically spoke to us about Beethoven, Lizst and Schumann, explaining his inventively chosen programme most engagingly.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French inventif, -ive or medieval Latin inventivus, from Latin invenire 'discover' (see invent).

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