Meaning of ORIGINATIVE
| Pronunciation: | | u'riju`neytiv
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- [adj] having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination"
- [adj] containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"
- [adj] having the power to bring into being
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| | Synonyms: | | creative, fanciful, fictive, generative, germinal, imaginative, ingenious, inventive, notional, seminal, yeasty |
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| | Antonyms: | | uncreative | | |
| | See Also: | | original, productive | |
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| | Definition: | | \O*rig"i*na*tive\, a.
Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into
existence; originating. --H. Bushnell. --
{O*rig"i*na*tive*ly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | behind the scenes, causal, causative, conceptive, conceptual, constitutive, constructive, creative, decisive, demiurgic, determinative, effectual, esemplastic, etiological, fecund, fertile, formative, generative, germinal, ideational, ideative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, inspired, institutive, inventive, notional, occasional, original, pivotal, pregnant, productive, prolific, seminal, shaping, teeming, visioned |
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