Originative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  originative
       adj 1: having the ability or power to create; "a creative
              imagination" [syn: {creative}] [ant: {uncreative}]
       2: having the power to bring into being [syn: {creative}]
       3: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one
          discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: {germinal},
           {seminal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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