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reinventive

reinventive adjective: tending to reinvent.

Adjective

reinventive (comparative more reinventive, superlative most reinventive)

  1. Tending to reinvent.
    • The city proved remarkably resilient in the face of the Bethlehem Steel closing, said Bridget George, the festival’s executive director, and “as change comes, we have to be as creative and reinventive in our own response to what Bethlehem is and how passionately we feel about it.”2007 May 7, James Oestreich, “Bach’s Captains and Foot Soldiers of Musical Industry”, in New York Times

Forms of reinventive

comparativemore reinventive
superlativemost reinventive

Origin of reinventive

Blend of reinvent + inventive?

Questions about reinventive

What does reinventive mean?
Reinventive means tending to reinvent.
What part of speech is reinventive?
Reinventive is an adjective.

Words near reinventive in the dictionary

  1. reinvention of the wheel
  2. reinventional
  3. reinventions
  4. reinventions of the wheel
  5. reinventions of wheels
  6. reinventive
  7. reinventor
  8. reinventoried
  9. reinventories
  10. reinventors
  11. reinventory

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