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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having the ability to produce or originate;
- Example: "generative power"
- Example: "generative forces"
[syn: generative, productive]

2. producing new life or offspring;
- Example: "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"
- Example: "the reproductive or generative organs"
[syn: generative, procreative, reproductive]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Generative \Gen"er*a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. g['e]n['e]ratif.] Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

generative adj 1: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces" [syn: generative, productive] [ant: consumptive] 2: producing new life or offspring; "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs" [syn: generative, procreative, reproductive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "generative": abiogenetic, aboriginal, basal, basic, biogenetic, blastogenetic, causative, central, constructive, creative, crucial, demiurgic, elemental, elementary, embryonic, epigenetic, eumerogenetic, formative, fundamental, gametic, genetic, genial, genital, genitive, germinal, heterogenetic, histogenetic, homogenetic, in embryo, in ovo, inventive, isogenetic, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic, original, originative, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic, phytogenetic, pregnant, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, productive, protogenic, radical, rudimentary, seminal, sporogenous, xenogenetic