Usually means: Creating something new from patterns.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. generative: Merriam-Webster
  2. generative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. generative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. generative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. generative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Generative, generative: Wordnik
  7. generative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. generative: Wiktionary
  9. generative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. generative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. generative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. generative: Dictionary.com
  13. Generative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Generative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. generative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. generative: Rhymezone
  17. Generative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. generative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. generative: FreeDictionary.org
  20. generative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. generative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. generative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generative: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Generative: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. generative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. generative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. generative: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
▸ adjective:  (euphemistic) reproductive

Similar:
procreative, originative, creative, productive, fruitful, reproductive, generant, genial, progenital, propagative, more...

Opposite:
degenerative

Types:
random, fractal, algorithmic, procedural, more...

Phrases:
generative grammar, generative phonology, generative semantics, generative cell, generative grammars, more...

Adjectives:
more, transformational, less, inherently, cash, culturally, societally, phonologic, intrinsically, objective, nutritive

Colors:
    cerulean,     emerald,     amethyst,     coral,     saffron, more...

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Similar:
procreative, originative, creative, productive, fruitful, reproductive, generant, genial, progenital, propagative, more...

Opposite:
degenerative

Types:
random, fractal, algorithmic, procedural, more...

Phrases:
generative grammar, generative phonology, generative semantics, generative cell, generative grammars, generative nucleus, generative programming, transformational generative grammar, Generative art, more...

Adjectives:
more, transformational, less, inherently, cash, culturally, societally, phonologic, intrinsically, objective, nutritive

Colors:
    cerulean,     emerald,     amethyst,     coral,     saffron, more...



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