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inventive - 19 thesaurus results
Main Entry: inventive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: creative
Synonyms: adroit, artistic, avant-garde, constructive, fertile, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspired, original, productive, resourceful, teeming, breaking new ground, causative, demiurgic, deviceful, forgetive, innovational, innovatory, originative, poetical
Antonyms: stolen, unoriginal, uncreative, uninventive
Main Entry: aesthetic/esthetic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beautiful or artful
Synonyms: artistic, creative, gorgeous, inventive
Antonyms: ugly, displeasing
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*, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inventive, original, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out, demiurgic, deviceful, innovational, innovatory, leading-edge, originative
Antonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, uncreative, ungifted, untalented
Main Entry: ingenious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever; brilliant
Synonyms: able, adroit, artistic, bright, canny, crafty, creative, cunning, dexterous, gifted, imaginative, innovative, intelligent, inventive, original, ready, resourceful, shrewd, skillful, sly, subtle, deviceful, innovational, innovatory
Notes: ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid' or 'naïve'
Antonyms: awkward, dumb, ignorant, incompetent, inept, stupid
Main Entry: innovative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: creative
Synonyms: avant-garde, contemporary, ingenious, inventive, new, newfangled*, original, state-of-the-art, breaking new ground, cutting-edge, deviceful, innovational, innovatory, just out, leading-edge, originative
Antonyms: customary, habitual, old, traditional, unimaginative, uncreative
Main Entry: intellectual
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very smart
Synonyms: bookish, brainy*, cerebral, creative, highbrow*, intelligent, inventive, learned, mental, psychological, rational, scholarly, studious, subjective, thoughtful, highbrowed, intellective, phrenic
Antonyms: foolish, ignorant, simple, stupid
Main Entry: productive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fruitful, creative
Synonyms: advantageous, beneficial, constructive, dynamic, effective, energetic, fecund, fertile, gainful, gratifying, inventive, plentiful, producing, profitable, prolific, rewarding, rich, teeming, useful, valuable, vigorous, worthwhile, generative
Antonyms: fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive
Main Entry: resourceful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: imaginative
Synonyms: able, active, adventurous, aggressive, bright, capable, clever, creative, enterprising, ingenious, intelligent, inventive, original, quick-witted, sharp, talented, venturesome
Antonyms: dull, unimaginative, uncreative, unresourceful
Main Entry: aesthetic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beautiful
Synonyms: artful, artistic, creative, gorgeous, inventive, esthetic
Antonyms: ugly, unattractive, displeasing
Main Entry: active
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very involved in activity
Synonyms: aggressive, agile, alert, alive, animated, assiduous, bold, brisk, busy, chipper, daring, dashing, determined, dexterous, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, engaged, enterprising, enthusiastic, eventful, forceful, forcible, fresh, frisky, high-spirited, industrious, intense, inventive, jumping, keen, lively, nimble, perky, persevering, purposeful, pushing, quick, rapid, ready, resolute, sharp, sprightly, spry, whiz*, zealous, bustling, enlivened, fireball, hard-working, hyper, on the move
Antonyms: disinterested, idle, indifferent, lazy, quiescent, quiet
Main Entry: artistic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: being skilled in creative activity
Synonyms: accomplished, artful, arty, crafty, discriminating, gifted, imaginative, inventive, skillful, talented, artsy-craftsy
Antonyms: scientific
Main Entry: original
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fresh, new
Synonyms: creative, fertile, formative, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspiring, inventive, novel, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual, avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, generative, innovational, innovatory, originative
Antonyms: borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn
Main Entry: pregnant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: significant, meaningful
Synonyms: charged, cogent, consequential, creative, eloquent, expressive, fecund, imaginative, important, inventive, loaded, momentous, original, pointed, redolent, rich, seminal, sententious, suggestive, telling, weighty
Antonyms: insignificant, trivial, unmeaningful
Main Entry: bright
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intelligent
Synonyms: acute, advanced, alert, astute, aware, brainy, brilliant, clever, discerning, ingenious, inventive, keen, knowing, precocious, quick, quick-witted, sharp, smart, whiz kid*, wide-awake, Einstein, clear-headed, eggheaded, having smarts
Antonyms: dull, stupid, unaware, unintelligent
Main Entry: brilliant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very intelligent
Synonyms: accomplished, acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, expert, genius, gifted, ingenious, intellectual, inventive, knowing, knowledgeable, masterly, penetrating, profound, quick, quick-witted, sharp, smart, talented, whip, whiz kid*, Einstein, eggheaded
Antonyms: stupid, unaware, unintelligent
Related Words
Main Entry: fancy
Part of Speech: adjective, noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
Main Entry: skill
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
gain, a good hand at, able, accomplished, adroit, affabrous, alive to, ambidextral, ambidextrous, apt, artistic, at home in, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conversant, crack, cunning, cut out for, dab, daedalian, dedal, deft, dexterous, discreet, efficient, endowed, experienced, expert, fabrile, felicitous, fine, fit for, fitted, fitted for, gifted, good at, habile, hackneyed, hand, in practice, in proper cue, ingenious, initiated, inventive, master of, masterful, masterly, neat, practiced, prepared, primed, proficient, qualified, quick, ready, scientific, sharp, shipshape, shrewd, skilled, skillful, smart, statesmanlike, surefooted, talented, technical, thoroughbred, trained, up in, up to, up to snuff, up to the mark, well up in, workmanlike
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