Do we say inventive or innovative

inventive 218 occurrences

The widely trained mind, taking large views as to the responsibility of the Army towards the nation delivered into its hands, so that not only should it be disciplined for war but made fitter for peace; and the practical inventive gifts of individuals who, in seeking to meet a special need, stumble on something universal, both forces have been constantly at work.

"That's true, sir; I have not heard from him since he quitted the Black Cloud in the South, I think they said for his health; but how did he get the step?" "Why, as to the promotion, that was remarkable enough," said Fernando, quaffing off a tumbler of champagne to aid his inventive faculties; but

Fernando, despite his native shrewdness and wonderful inventive powers, was liable to get into trouble.

All other poets and inventive authors are measured in their excellence by the accuracy with which they fit sentiments appropriate not only to the characters they create, but to the situations in which they place them: the works of Lord Byron display the opposite to this, and with the most extraordinary splendour.

Something else must be thought of; and being an inventive genius, he tried putting it in his trunk, but it scented his Sunday jacket and trousers, and the girls all turned up their noses at the odd perfume.

Hannibal Marches toward Rome Hannibal tried a further expedient, the last which occurred to his inventive genius, to save the important city.

Through the immense inventive capacity of our people, mechanical avocations are becoming almost as sedentary and intellectual as the professions.

His fancy was alert and inventive, and he wrote tales and novels.

By ten o'clock that night care was in the ascendant, and by eleven, when he discerned the red glow of Mr. Travers's pipe set as a beacon against a dark background of hedge, the boatswain was ready to curse his inventive powers.

He shows in this work an inventive fancy equal to that of any writer of light fiction in the English language, and hardly surpassed by those of the French,from which latter, it is fair to suppose, much of his inspiration is drawn, since his style is undisguisedly that of modern French romancers, though often made the vehicle of thoughts far nobler than any they are wont to convey.

Look at the most inventive spirits of this country,those whose intellects have achieved the most memorable triumphs.

But we do not always remember that it was during this period (1840-1860) that the marvelous inventive genius of the people of the United States began to show itself.

It was the famous Monitor, designed by Captain John Ericsson, to whose inventive genius we owe the screw propeller and the hot-air engine.

Never was a human creature pursued by enemies more inventive or envenomed.

It was the inventive skill of Charles D. Mosher, who has built many fast yachts, that enabled him to build engines and boilers of great power in proportion to their weight.

That was my grandfather's "work-room", where he had a lathe fitted up, for he had a passion and a genius for inventive work in machinery.

Inventive as he was and having already made so many things useful about the farm or in the house, it is a wonder he did not immediately begin the making of some musical instrument rather than go without it.

From inventive powers so rich and technical excellence so thorough, we demand more than he can give, and are therefore disappointed.

"Those have the most inventive heads for all purposes.

Gem-like effects may be obtained by inlaying with smaller pieces, following such ornamental forms as your inventive brains shall dictate.

The armies of the republic have, indeed, invaded the territories of its enemies, but the desolation of their own country seems to increase with every triumphthe genius of the French government appears powerful only in destruction, and inventive only in oppressionand, while it is endowed with the faculty of spreading universal ruin, it is incapable of promoting the happiness of the smallest district under its protection.

Every inventive genius bothers his head with this nonsensical problem, till he learns that he is a fool.

4.25 .50 International Sun. Sch'l., Evangel, St. Louis m .45 1.00 Inventive Age, Washington ....................

"I was not so inventive.

Let us pause for an instant here and recall the singular inventive and combining grace with which a Spectacle is always given in these stories.

innovative 5 occurrences

New, novel, fresh, recent, modern, late, innovative, unprecedented.

Like the innovative Ivan Fera, who died young along with the promise of immense talent and many bylines in journals like The Illustrated Weekly.

Instead, we went for innovative editorial content.

Chapter 16: An accidental Bhailo Rahul GoswamiRahul Goswami, one of Goa's most hardworking and innovative outstation correspondent, covered this state for the Business Standard, in the mid-nineties.

There were some innovative ideas to capitalize on the potential thrown up by the Internet, and particularly by e-mail, for the benefit of the common men.

Do we say   inventive   or  innovative