1. ADJ If something is generative, it is capable of producing something or causing it to develop. 有生產(chǎn)能力的; 令…生長的[正式]

...the generative power of the sun. ...太陽催生萬物的能力。

2. ADJ In linguistics, generative is used to describe linguistic theories or models which are based on the idea that a single set of rules can explain how all the possible sentences of a language are formed. (語言學(xué))生成的[技術(shù)] [ADJ n]