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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]