Dictionary Definition
originative adj
1 having the ability or power to create; "a
creative imagination" [syn: creative] [ant: uncreative]
2 having the power to bring into being [syn:
creative]
3 containing seeds of later development; "seminal
ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn:
germinal, seminal]
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
behind the scenes, causal, causative, conceptive, conceptual, constitutive, constructive, creative, decisive, demiurgic, determinative, effectual, esemplastic, etiological, fecund, fertile, formative, generative, germinal, ideational, ideative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, inspired, institutive, inventive, notional, occasional, original, pivotal, pregnant, productive, prolific, seminal, shaping, teeming, visioned