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Originative

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

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Fanciful 84% connected

Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

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Fanciful 84% connected

Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

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Fictive 84% connected

Feigned; counterfeit.

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Fictive 84% connected

Feigned; counterfeit.

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Imaginative 84% connected

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

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Imaginative 84% connected

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

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Inventive 84% connected

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

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Inventive 84% connected

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

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Notional 84% connected

Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.

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Notional 84% connected

Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.

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Original 84% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Original 84% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Yeasty 84% connected

Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

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Yeasty 84% connected

Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

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Develop 74% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Develop 74% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Initiate 74% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Initiate 74% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Original 66% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Original 66% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Productive 66% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

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Productive 66% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

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Creative 92% connected

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

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Germinal 92% connected

Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.

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Seminal 92% connected

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

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