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Inventive

Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

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Creative 84% connected

Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

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Creative 84% connected

Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

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Originative 84% connected

Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.

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Originative 84% connected

Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.

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Cleverness 74% connected

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

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Cleverness 74% connected

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

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Forge 74% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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Forge 74% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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Imaginative 92% connected

Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.

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