What is the meaning of inventive?

adjective

  • Used of persons or artifacts. ( marked by independence and creativity in thought or action)
    • usage: "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"
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