Antonyms of adj inventive

1 sense of inventive

Sense 1
imaginative, inventive -- ((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")

INDIRECT (VIA creative) -> uncreative -- (not creative; "an uncreative imagination")

Similarity of adj inventive

1 sense of inventive

Sense 1
imaginative, inventive -- ((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")
       => creative (vs. uncreative), originative -- (having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination")

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