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gen·er·a·tive  (jnr--tv, --r-)
adj.
1. Having the ability to originate, produce, or procreate.
2. Of or relating to the production of offspring.
gener·a·tive·ly adv.
gener·a·tive·ness n.
generative
Adjective
capable of producing or originating something
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Adj.1.generative - having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces"
productive
consumptive - tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
2.generative - producing new life or offspring; "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs"
procreative, reproductive
fruitful - productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"
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The proceeding upon somewhat conceived in writing, doth for the most part facilitate dispatch: for though it should be wholly rejected, yet that negative is more pregnant of direction, than an indefinite; as ashes are more generative than dust.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
It is only in those cases in which the modification has been comparatively recent and extraordinarily great that we ought to find the generative variability, as it may be called, still present in a high degree.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
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