Synonyms for Inventive:

• adj.

  •active (adjective)
  • perky,
  • forcible,
  • hard-working,
  • lively,
  • quick,
  • on the move,
  • quickest,
  • fireball,
  • hyper.
  •aesthetic/esthetic (adjective)
  • esthetic,
  • more aesthetic.
  •beautiful (adjective)
  • aesthetic.
  •bright (adjective)
  • Clear-headed,
  • more acute,
  • having smarts,
  • eggheaded,
  • wideawake.
  •brilliant (adjective)
  • most knowledgeable,
  • pro founder,
  • whippest,
  • most genius,
  • pro-found,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro found,
  • more genius.
  •clever (adjective)
  • pro,
  • savviest,
  • nobodys fool,
  • many sided,
  • dexterous dextrous,
  • quick trigger,
  • nobody fool,
  • foxy,
  • more egghead,
  • more crackerjack,
  • dexterous-dextrous,
  • most capable,
  • nobody's fool,
  • more skilled,
  • dexterousdextrous,
  • manysided,
  • most crackerjack,
  • shrewdest,
  • witty,
  • wisest,
  • slick,
  • most egghead.
  •creative (adjective)
  • avant-garde,
  • leading-edge,
  • visionary,
  • imaginative,
  • formative,
  • Demiurgic,
  • prolific,
  • adroit,
  • innovative,
  • innovational,
  • fruitful,
  • inspired,
  • teeming,
  • Forgetive,
  • gifted,
  • Deviceful,
  • originative,
  • fertile,
  • conceptive,
  • constructive,
  • causative,
  • poetical.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • fantastic,
  • imaginary,
  • suppositional,
  • speculative,
  • conceptual,
  • dreamy.
  •innovative (adjective)
  • more cutting edge,
  • avantgarde,
  • most cutting-edge,
  • cuttingedge,
  • more cutting-edge,
  • most cutting edge,
  • more cuttingedge,
  • more innovative,
  • most cuttingedge.
  •intellectual (adjective)
  • more highbrowed,
  • more intellective,
  • psycho-logical,
  • psycho logical,
  • most highbrowed,
  • phrenic,
  • highbrowed,
  • more phrenic,
  • most phrenic,
  • Intellective,
  • most intellective.
  •intelligent (adjective)
  • well-informed,
  • more intelligent,
  • all there.
  •original (adjective)
  • untried,
  • most novel,
  • causal.
  •productive (adjective)
  • re warding,
  • re-warding.
  •resourceful (adjective)
  • re sourceful,
  • re-sourceful.
  •witty (adjective)
  • droll,
  • astute,
  • dry,
  • comical,
  • wily,
  • urbane,
  • cunning,
  • scintillating,
  • subtle,
  • crafty,
  • tricky,
  • joking,
  • sarcastic,
  • sparkling,
  • shrewd,
  • canny,
  • jocular,
  • sharp,
  • pointed,
  • waggish,
  • sly,
  • sophisticated,
  • smart,
  • deft,
  • scurrilous,
  • artful,
  • pithy,
  • funny,
  • quick-witted,
  • facetious.

• n.

  •
  • bright,
  • clear-sighted,
  • wise,
  • discerning,
  • able,
  • academic.
  •
  • coin,
  • design,
  • development,
  • breakthrough,
  • discovery,
  • creativity,
  • ability,
  • Frankenstein's Monster,
  • contrive,
  • devise.
  •
  • different,
  • fresh,
  • new.
  •on fire (noun)
  • fire.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fanciful,
  • innovatory.
  •
  • newfangled,
  • novel,
  • unprecedented.
  •
  • unfamiliar.
  •Other relevant words:
  • postnatal,
  • aptitude,
  • groundbreaking,
  • calculated,
  • unmatched,
  • prettily,
  • newly,
  • originator,
  • fruitfully,
  • effectively,
  • inimitable,
  • talented,
  • tricksy,
  • effectually,
  • practical,
  • parturient,
  • ideational,
  • Daedalian,
  • author,
  • infantile,
  • pleasantly,
  • felicitous,
  • autochthonous,
  • creatively,
  • seminal,
  • Visioned,
  • cute,
  • genuine,
  • beginning,
  • artistically,
  • initiative,
  • mover,
  • aesthetically,
  • snaky,
  • unexampled,
  • notional,
  • up to snuff,
  • gift,
  • vivid,
  • productively,
  • perspicacious,
  • discreet,
  • elementary,
  • endowed,
  • exceptional,
  • pleasingly,
  • prime,
  • nascent,
  • firsthand,
  • Rudimental,
  • neat,
  • Unimitated,
  • fetal,
  • keen,
  • inventiveness,
  • ingenuity,
  • apt,
  • inchoate,
  • inchoative,
  • designing,
  • guileful,
  • endowment,
  • primitive,
  • on the ball,
  • antenatal,
  • sagacious,
  • long-headed,
  • germinal,
  • tactical,
  • inventively,
  • infant,
  • elegantly,
  • faculty,
  • cunningly,
  • rudimentary,
  • ingeniously,
  • deceitful,
  • initiatory,
  • sneaky,
  • inspiring,
  • shrewdly,
  • perceptive,
  • crackerjack,
  • founder,
  • efficiently,
  • dexterous,
  • unusual,
  • introductory,
  • manipulative,
  • craftily,
  • foundational,
  • Inceptive,
  • machiavellian,
  • rare,
  • cleverness,
  • professional,
  • budding,
  • fundamental,
  • Trickish,
  • artfully,
  • creation,
  • scheming,
  • slippery,
  • unique,
  • knowing,
  • shifty,
  • cagey,
  • Esemplastic,
  • capacity,
  • prodigy,
  • calculating,
  • inaugural,
  • strategic,
  • creator,
  • decoratively,
  • producer,
  • natal,
  • primary,
  • supple,
  • primeval,
  • handy,
  • delightfully,
  • generative,
  • in embryo,
  • sage,
  • skilful,
  • sophistical,
  • skilled,
  • flair,
  • Primogenial,
  • stealthy,
  • agreeably,
  • wary,
  • incunabular,
  • primal,
  • prenatal,
  • aboriginal,
  • cleverly,
  • Imagining,
  • in its infancy,
  • embryonic,
  • Gestatory,
  • insidious,
  • imagination,
  • ideative,
  • gracefully,
  • Promethean,
  • innovatively,
  • Fertilely,
  • underived,
  • attractively,
  • fecund,
  • vulpine,
  • beautifully,
  • formatively,
  • invention,
  • diplomatic,
  • smooth,
  • arch,
  • Subtile,
  • shaping,
  • deep-laid,
  • in the bud,
  • untranslated,
  • adept,
  • acute,
  • percipient,
  • ready,
  • farsighted,
  • pawky,
  • abecedarian,
  • serpentine,
  • unparalleled,
  • elemental,
  • vigorous,
  • brain,
  • genius,
  • deep,
  • initial,
  • imaginatively,
  • alive to,
  • politic,
  • father,
  • feline,
  • enterprising,
  • incipient,
  • procreative.

Paraphrases for Inventive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    imaginative, creative.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    innovatory, original, clever, groundbreaking, ground-breaking, Pioneering.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    innovative, ingenious, resourceful.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inventiveness.

Antonyms for Inventive:

• adj.

  • creative
    old, dull, unoriginal, inept, stolen, uninventive, uncreative, unimaginative, unresourceful.
  • Other antonyms:
    impractical, pedantic, infertile, imitative, stodgy, assembly line, unproductive, pedestrian, canned, derivative, uninspired, hackneyed, cookie-cutter, useless.