Antonyms for originative
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uh-rij-uh-ney-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈrɪdʒ əˌneɪ tɪv |
- borrowed
- customary
- derivative
- dull
- fruitless
- habitual
- hackneyed
- impotent
- inept
- latest
- newest
- normal
- old
- old-fashioned
- ordinary
- real
- realistic
- reasonable
- slow
- standard
- stolen
- traditional
- uncreative
- uneducated
- unfruitful
- ungifted
- unimaginative
- uninspired
- uninventive
- unoriginal
- unproductive
- unresourceful
- unromantic
- untalented
- used
- usual
- worn
Definition of originative
- As in innovative : adj creative
- As in inventive : adj creative
- As in original : adj fresh, new
- As in innovatory : adj inventive
- As in creative : adj artistic, imaginative
- As in imaginative : adj creative, inventive
- This power we have termed the originative or intuitive faculty.
- Extract from : « Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will » by Joseph Haven
- There was no room for, and no need of, the conception of free, originative thought.
- Extract from : « Rudolph Eucken » by Abel J. Jones
- Lombardy, with the exception of Venice, is comparatively barren of originative elements.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 » by John Addington Symonds
- What he lacked was depth of feeling, the sense of noble form, the originative force of a great mind.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 » by John Addington Symonds
- Youth is daring and originative; middle age is less venturesome, but it possesses, on the other hand, a wider range of experience.
- Extract from : « A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution » by C. M. Williams
- The necessary demand of reason is that the first and originative cause of all finite personality shall be Himself a person.
- Extract from : « The Theistic Conception of the World » by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
- To appreciate fully his originative power one must understand the disadvantages under which he worked.
- Extract from : « Sir Joshua Reynolds » by Estelle M. Hurll
- These places lay within the confines of central and northern France, the home of the most originative mediaeval development.
- Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor
- Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men.
- Extract from : « Marriage » by H. G. Wells
- Now the untrained mind appreciates the dynamic aspect of literature, whether it be the originative mind or the mind of the reader.
- Extract from : « Beauty and the Beast » by Stewart A. McDowall
Synonyms for originative
- adroit
- artistic
- avant garde
- avant-garde
- blue-sky
- brain wave
- breaking ground
- breaking new ground
- causal
- causative
- clever
- conceiving
- constructive
- contemporary
- cool
- creative
- cutting-edge
- demiurgic
- deviceful
- devising
- dreamy
- enterprising
- envisioning
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fertile
- fictive
- forgetive
- formative
- fruitful
- generative
- gifted
- high-flown
- hip
- imaginative
- ingenious
- innovational
- innovative
- innovatory
- inspired
- inspiring
- inventive
- just out
- leading-edge
- new
- newfangled
- novel
- offbeat
- original
- originative
- pie-in-the-sky
- poetic
- poetical
- productive
- prolific
- quick
- quixotic
- ready
- resourceful
- romantic
- seminal
- sensitive
- state-of-the-art
- stimulating
- teeming
- unconventional
- unprecedented
- untried
- unusual
- utopian
- visionary
- vivid
- way out
- whimsical
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