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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having the ability or power to create;
- Example: "a creative imagination"
[syn: creative, originative]

2. containing seeds of later development;
- Example: "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"
[syn: germinal, originative, seminal]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Originative \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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

originative adj 1: having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination" [syn: creative, originative] [ant: uncreative] 2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "originative": 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