An inventive person is good at inventing things or has clever and original ideas. It inspired me to be more inventive with my own cooking. = creative + inventiveness in·ven·tive·ness He has surprised us before with his inventiveness. able to think of new, different, or interesting ideas = creative
(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"