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Inventive; productive; capable. Shak.

INVENTIVE
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
CAPABLENESS
The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
PRODUCTIVE
1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing;
CAPABLE
1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2.
UNCAPABLE
Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
INCAPABLE
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
OVERCAPABLE
Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
UNSCAPABLE
Not be escaped; inevitable. Wyclif.
INESCAPABLE
Not escapable.
INCAPABLENESS
The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
ESCAPABLE
Avoidable.
REPRODUCTIVE
Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.