Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in an inventive manner;
- Example: "Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inventively
adv 1: in an inventive manner; "Picasso's liberated shapes and
excitingly applied and inventively combined colours"