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Adjective: inventive  in'ven-tiv
  1. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
    "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"
    - imaginative

See also: creative, invent, inventively, inventiveness, originative

Encyclopedia: Inventive