Synonyms for inventive

Adjective

1. imaginative, ingenious, inventive, creative (vs. uncreative), originative

usage: (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "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"