ORIGINATIVE Synonyms

• having the ability or power to create

• promoting construction or creation

• the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• ahead of the times

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)

• having the ability to produce or originate

• yielding positive results

• marked by great fruitfulness

• having inner resources; adroit or imaginative

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds

• containing seeds of later development

• pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen

• containing seeds of later development