causative

[kaw-zuh-tiv] / ˈkɔ zə tɪv /

ADJECTIVE

innovatory

Synonyms

WEAK

adroit artistic avant-garde breaking new ground constructive creative demiurgic deviceful fertile forgetive formative fruitful gifted imaginative ingenious innovational innovative inspired original originative poetical productive resourceful teeming

ADJECTIVE

inventive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

gifted imaginative ingenious innovative original resourceful

WEAK

adroit artistic avant-garde breaking new ground constructive demiurgic deviceful fertile forgetive formative fruitful innovational innovatory inspired originative poetical productive teeming

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dull inept old uncreative unimaginative unresourceful

WEAK

stolen uninventive unoriginal

ADJECTIVE

original

Synonyms

STRONGEST

creative imaginative innovative inventive seminal unconventional unusual

STRONG

devising envisioning formative novel quick ready sensitive

WEAK

avant garde breaking new ground causal conceiving demiurgic fertile generative ingenious innovational innovatory inspiring originative productive resourceful unprecedented untried

Antonyms

WEAK

borrowed hackneyed latest old used worn

Example Sentences

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Lay, set, raise are causatives; that is, to lay means to cause to lie, etc.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland