Definition of Inventively

1. Adverb. In an inventive manner. "Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours"

Partainyms: Inventive

Definition of Inventively

1. Adverb. In an inventive manner. ¹

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Definition of Inventively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inventively

invenoming
invenoms
invent
invented
inventer
inventers
inventest
inventeth
inventful
inventible
inventing
invention
inventions
inventious
inventive
inventively (current term)
inventiveness
inventivenesses
inventor
inventorial
inventorially
inventoried
inventories
inventorize
inventorized
inventorizes
inventorizing
inventors
inventorship
inventory

Literary usage of Inventively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"She had lied to him—lied to him from the first... there hadn't been a moment when she hadn't lied to him, deliberately, ingeniously and inventively. ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"The Louds, besides being strong inventively, were important promoters of the industry. Lucas, George W. (b. Glastonbury, Conn., 1800), from 1816 for over ..."

3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... to the heart of feeling, had drunk more wildly, more inventively, of passion than he, in more than one country of Europe, in the East as in the West. ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... and perhaps I have come to feel a full sense of it only now, when I perceive that he worked willingly only when he worked inventively. ..."

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