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originative

adjective as in innovative

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Example Sentences

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Youth is daring and originative; middle age is less venturesome, but it possesses, on the other hand, a wider range of experience.

On the one hand there are originative factors which produce those changes in living creatures which make them different from their fellows.

France before Rousseau was not the France of Victor Hugo; the former had work of an originative character to do in the social sphere, as Victor Hugo had in that of literature.

The child must himself be originative, directive, and executive in the learning process if cram is to be avoided completely.

Moderately mental; not originative, or inventive, but speculative; roving, predatory, revengeful, and sensual.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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