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Main Entry: inventive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: creative

Synonyms:

adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming

Antonyms:

stolen, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal
Main Entry: active
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very involved in activity

Synonyms:

aggressive, agile, alert, alive, animated, assiduous, bold, brisk, bustling, busy, chipper, daring, dashing, determined, dexterous, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, engaged, enlivened, enterprising, enthusiastic, eventful, fireball, forceful, forcible, fresh, frisky, hard-working, high-spirited, hyper, industrious, intense, inventive, jumping, keen, lively, nimble, on the move, perky, persevering, purposeful, pushing, quick, rapid, ready, resolute, sharp, sprightly, spry, whiz*, zealous
Notes: active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads

Antonyms:

disinterested, idle, indifferent, lazy, quiescent, quiet
Main Entry: aesthetic/esthetic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beautiful or artful

Synonyms:

artistic, creative, gorgeous, inventive

Antonyms:

displeasing, ugly
Main Entry: artistic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: being skilled in creative activity

Synonyms:

accomplished, artful, artsy-craftsy, arty, crafty, discriminating, gifted, imaginative, inventive, skillful, talented

Antonyms:

scientific
Main Entry: bright
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intelligent

Synonyms:

Einstein, acute, advanced, alert, astute, aware, brainy, brilliant, clear-headed, clever, discerning, eggheaded, having smarts, ingenious, inventive, keen, knowing, precocious, quick, quick-witted, sharp, smart, whiz kid, wide-awake

Antonyms:

dull, stupid, unaware, unintelligent
Main Entry: brilliant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very intelligent

Synonyms:

Einstein, accomplished, acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, eggheaded, expert, genius, gifted, ingenious, intellectual, inventive, knowing, knowledgeable, masterly, penetrating, profound, quick, quick-witted, sharp, smart, talented, whip, whiz kid

Antonyms:

stupid, unaware, unintelligent
Main Entry: clever
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bright, ingenious

Synonyms:

able, adept, adroit, alert, apt, astute, brainy, brilliant, cagey, canny, capable, competent, crackerjack*, cunning, deep, dexterous/dextrous, discerning, egghead, expert, foxy*, gifted, good, handy, intelligent, inventive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, many-sided, nimble, nobody's fool, pretty, pro, qualified, quick, quick on trigger, quick-witted, rational, resourceful, sagacious, savvy, sensible, sharp, shrewd, skilled, skillful, slick, sly, smart, sprightly, talented, versatile, wise, witty

Antonyms:

awkward, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, naive, senseless, stupid, unclever
Main Entry: creative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: artistic, imaginative

Synonyms:

clever, cool*, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, leading-edge, original, originative, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out

Antonyms:

uncreative, ungifted, unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, untalented
Main Entry: ingenious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever; brilliant

Synonyms:

able, adroit, artistic, bright, canny, crafty, creative, cunning, deviceful, dexterous, gifted, imaginative, innovational, innovative, innovatory, intelligent, inventive, original, ready, resourceful, shrewd, skillful, sly, subtle

Antonyms:

awkward, dumb, ignorant, incompetent, inept, stupid
Main Entry: innovative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: creative

Synonyms:

avant-garde, breaking new ground, contemporary, cutting-edge, deviceful, ingenious, innovational, innovatory, inventive, just out, leading-edge, new, newfangled, original, originative, state-of-the-art

Antonyms:

customary, habitual, old, traditional, uncreative, unimaginative
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