[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