of or relating to the production of offspring, parts, etc capable of producing or originating
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
gen•er•a•tive /ˈdʒɛnərətɪv/USA pronunciation adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- able to produce something;
productive:generative processes.
gen•er•a•tive
( jen′ər ə tiv, -ə rā′tiv),USA pronunciation adj.
gen′er•a•tive•ly, adv.
gen′er•a•tive•ness, n.
- capable of producing or creating.
- pertaining to the production of offspring.
- Linguistics
- of or pertaining to generative grammar.
- using rules to generate surface forms from underlying, abstract forms.
- Middle French generatif, Late Latin generātīvus. See generate, -ive
- late Middle English 1375–1425
gen′er•a•tive•ness, n.
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'generative' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Chomskyan
- Shakti
- TG
- TGG
- autonomous syntax
- base
- breath
- case grammar
- categorial
- cloaca
- component
- deep structure
- derivation
- formative
- generate
- generative grammar
- generative phonology
- generative semantics
- generative-transformational grammar
- generativist
- grammar
- loin
- morpheme structure condition
- phallicism
- phallus
- phonological rule
- phrase marker
- productive
- rewriterule
- self-generating
- spermatic
- surface structure
- systematic phoneme
- trace
- transformational grammar
- transformational-generative grammar