Definition of originative Originative

o•rig•i•na•tive

We found 4 definitions of originative from 3 different sources.

What does originative mean?

Adjective
originative - having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination"
		creative
		uncreative not creative; "an uncreative imagination"
		original not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"
		productive producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"
		creative thinking, creativeness, creativity the ability to create
		fanciful, notional indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
		fictive capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"
		imaginative, inventive (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"
originative - containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"
		germinal, seminal
		original not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"