ADVENTIVE | • adventive adj. Accidental. • adventive adj. Adventitious. • adventive adj. (Biology) Of a plant that is not native, but was introduced by humans to a place and has since become naturalized. |
ADVENTIVES | • adventives n. Plural of adventive. • ADVENTIVE n. a thing or person coming from outside. |
CHEMOPREVENTIVE | • chemopreventive adj. Of, or relating to chemoprevention. • chemopreventive n. A food supplement etc used for chemoprevention. |
CIRCUMVENTIVE | • circumventive adj. Evading or overcoming some protective measure. • CIRCUMVENTIVE adj. deceiving by artifices. |
EVENTIVE | • eventive adj. (Grammar) That denotes an event. • eventive n. (Grammar) A word or construct that denotes an event. • EVENTIVE adj. denoting an event. |
INVENTIVE | • inventive adj. Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes. • inventive adj. Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. • inventive adj. Purposefully fictive. |
INVENTIVELY | • inventively adv. In an inventive manner. • INVENTIVE adv. given to invention. |
INVENTIVENESS | • inventiveness n. The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing. • INVENTIVE n. given to invention. |
INVENTIVENESSES | • inventivenesses n. Plural of inventiveness. • INVENTIVENESS n. INVENTIVE, given to invention. |
PREVENTIVE | • preventive adj. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to. • preventive adj. Carried out to deter military aggression. • preventive adj. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic. |
PREVENTIVELY | • preventively adv. In a preventive way. • PREVENTIVE adv. serving to prevent, also PREVENTATIVE. |
PREVENTIVENESS | • preventiveness n. The quality of being preventive. • PREVENTIVE n. serving to prevent, also PREVENTATIVE. |
PREVENTIVES | • preventives n. Plural of preventive. • PREVENTIVE n. something that prevents. |
UNINVENTIVE | • uninventive adj. Not inventive. • UNINVENTIVE adj. not inventive. |
UNINVENTIVELY | • uninventively adv. In an uninventive way. |
UNINVENTIVENESS | • uninventiveness n. Lack of inventiveness. |