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.
inventively adv : in an inventive manner; "Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours"