Inventive and Imitative

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Inventive adjective - Having the skill and imagination to create new things.

Usage example: an inventive youth, he devised an automatic feeding system for his dog

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Imitative is an antonym for inventive in creative topic.

Imitative adjective - Using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model.

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Inventive is an antonym for imitative.

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