Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Inventive \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.

Source : WordNet®

inventive
     adj : (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and
           creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of
           material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by
           another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford;
           "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind";
           "inventive ceramics" [syn: {imaginative}, {ingenious}]