Usually means: Creative in finding novel solutions.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word inventive:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. inventive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inventive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inventive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inventive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inventive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inventive, inventive: Wordnik
  7. inventive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inventive: Wiktionary
  9. inventive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inventive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inventive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inventive, inventive: Dictionary.com
  13. inventive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inventive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inventive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inventive: Rhymezone
  17. Inventive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inventive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inventive: Free Dictionary
  20. inventive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inventive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inventive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inventive: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
adjective:  Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
adjective:  Purposely fictive.

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