inventive

inventif, créatif

Qui sait trouver des idées nouvelles ou créer de nouvelles choses.

En anglais simple : Good at thinking of new ideas or making new things.

• She is an inventive cook.
• We need an inventive solution to this problem.
• His inventive use of old materials impressed the judges.

Synonymes : creative, ingenious, original

Contraires : unimaginative

Expressions courantes : inventive person, inventive solution, inventive approach

inventif

Qui concerne la création de nouvelles machines, méthodes ou façons de procéder.

En anglais simple : Connected with creating new machines, methods, or processes.

• The inventive process took several years.
• Her research examines inventive activity in early factories.
• The museum records the inventive work behind these machines.

Expressions courantes : inventive process, inventive activity, inventive work

fictif, inventé

Créé volontairement par l’imagination plutôt que fondé sur des faits réels.

En anglais simple : Deliberately made up rather than based on real events or facts.

• The book contains an inventive tale of sea monsters.
• Her inventive account includes people who never existed.
• This inventive story was never meant as history.

Synonymes : fictional, fictitious, imaginary

Contraires : factual

Expressions courantes : inventive story, inventive tale, inventive account