In*vent"ive (?), a. [Cf. F. inventif.]

Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.

 

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