Inventive is an English word with synonyms like imaginative or ingenious. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Inventive meaning
- Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
- Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
- Purposely fictive.
Synonyms of Inventive
Using Inventive
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes. | Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. | Purposely fictive.
- Useful related words include: imaginative, ingenious, creative, originative.
- In the example corpus, inventive often appears in combinations such as: and inventive, inventive and, the inventive.
Context around Inventive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inventive
- In this selection, "inventive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, startlingly, good, games, action, first and mercury stand out and add context to how "inventive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a startlingly inventive seed of and as inventive mercury turns. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inventive" sits close to words such as annapolis, browsers and clears, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inventive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But it’s good, inventive, nonsense. (6 words)
Annie-B Parson’s choreography was inventive and fun. (9 words)
Celebrating inventive thinking, product or system development and creativity in business. (11 words)
All things considered, it's a surprisingly fun and inventive action/thriller, and contains the kinds of stylistic touches and ambitious action scenes that Rodriguez would become known for in his bigger-budgeted, more explosive subsequent films. (37 words)
Film historians credit the emotional impact of the Great Depression as one reason for the screwball comedy's unplanned rise, and cite the 1934 films It Happened One Night as igniting a firestorm of inventive imitators. (36 words)
From the acclaimed New 52 run of the mainline book to inventive Black Label titles like Sean Murphy's lucrative maxiseries, there's a treasure trove of comics to enjoy on DC Universe Infinite. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
If you want the kids to be inventive, you need to prepare them to be inventive.
All things considered, it's a surprisingly fun and inventive action/thriller, and contains the kinds of stylistic touches and ambitious action scenes that Rodriguez would become known for in his bigger-budgeted, more explosive subsequent films.
Annie-B Parson’s choreography was inventive and fun.
Arkane Studios’ Deathloop injects the thrilling open-ended, action-stealth gameplay from the Dishonored series into the framework of a time loop, offering up 2021’s most inventive first-person action game.
As inventive Mercury turns retrograde in your 2nd House of Possessions, repairing or maintaining things you already own could be cheaper than buying new.
As technology develops, we may anticipate even more captivating and inventive games in the future.
A wonderful cast, a startlingly inventive seed of an idea that sprawls into something huge, horses … There was a lot going on.
But for a show as creative and inventive as "Community" to have its episodes halved, that can cause some storytelling hurdles.
But it’s good, inventive, nonsense.
Capitalizing on Guerilla Games' inventive 2017 open-world action RPG, Horizon Forbidden Westbest cross-gen games on PS5.
Celebrating inventive thinking, product or system development and creativity in business.
Ever since Larian Studios released in August, players have been finding new, inventive, and incredibly fast ways to get it on.
Far removed from the slickly polished displays of much contemporary circus, it is all the more inventive, surprising and spirited for it.
Film historians credit the emotional impact of the Great Depression as one reason for the screwball comedy's unplanned rise, and cite the 1934 films It Happened One Night as igniting a firestorm of inventive imitators.
Following the journey of the "," whose power can turn the whole kingdom against him and his friends, Prime Video's offers an inventive magic system and a fantastical world full of wonders.
From fruit toast to chilli cheese scrambled eggs and banoffee pie pancakes, the inventive crew at Elixir have you covered.
From the acclaimed New 52 run of the mainline book to inventive Black Label titles like Sean Murphy's lucrative maxiseries, there's a treasure trove of comics to enjoy on DC Universe Infinite.
He used his incredible genetic knowledge and inventive skill to also create Counter-Earth and other beings in the film that threatened the team.
However, there were many other filmmakers who also made some hilarious, inventive comedies without the need for sound.
Instead of the fun and inventive youngling last seen in season 5, the Wookie was forced to mature quickly and adapt to the ways of his people to avoid a life on the run.
Common combinations with inventive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and inventive 33×
- inventive and 26×
- the inventive 11×
- an inventive 10×
- of inventive 8×
- more inventive 6×
- most inventive 5×
- inventive ways 5×
- wildly inventive 5×
- inventive as 4×