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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəɹətɪv/, /ˈd͡ʒɛnɹətɪv/, /d͡ʒəˈnɛɹətɪv/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəɹətɪv/, [ˈd͡ʒɛnəɹəɾɪv], /ˈd͡ʒɛnɹətɪv/, [ˈd͡ʒɛnɹəɾɪv], /d͡ʒəˈnɛɹətɪv/, [d͡ʒəˈnɛɹəɾɪv]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒenəɹətɪv/, [ˈd͡ʒenəɹəɾɪv]
• (Indic) IPA: /dʒɛnəˈreʈɪv/

形容詞

generative (comparative more generative, superlative most generative)

1. Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

   Synonym: creative

   Antonym: annihilative

   • 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:

     That generative particle.

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127:

     Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.

   • 2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews‎:

     The document states that despite its ongoing advancements, generative AI is liable to the United States’s current copyright principles, which take a strict stance on what material—human- or machine-made—qualifies for protection.

2. (euphemistic) Reproductive.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:

     Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.

   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 91:

     This ceremony seals the covenant in the flesh of the male generative organ.

派生語

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• degenerative