generative

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: gen=er=a=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

generative, a. [Cf. F. génératif.].

 Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.  Bentley.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

generative, adj.
1 of or concerning procreation.
2 able to produce, productive.

Idiom

generative grammar a set of rules whereby permissible sentences may be generated from the elements of a language.

Etymology

ME f. OF generatif or LL generativus (as GENERATE)

THESAURUS

generative

abiogenetic, aboriginal, basal, basic, biogenetic, blastogenetic, causative, central, constructive, creative, crucial, demiurgic, elemental, elementary, embryonic, epigenetic, eumerogenetic, formative, fundamental, gametic, genetic, genial, genital, genitive, germinal, heterogenetic, histogenetic, homogenetic, in embryo, in ovo, inventive, isogenetic, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic, original, originative, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic, phytogenetic, pregnant, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, productive, protogenic, radical, rudimentary, seminal, sporogenous, xenogenetic

ROGET THESAURUS

generative

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.