inventively

1. 1.

   in an inventive manner

   “Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours”

Questions about inventively

What does inventively mean?

inventively means "in an inventive manner".

How many syllables are in inventively?

inventively has 5 syllables: in-ven-ti-ve-ly. The stress falls on "ti".

Is inventively a common word?

inventively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.