Synonyms and related words :
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abecedarian, aboriginal, acute, antenatal, arch, artful, astute, autochthonous, beginning, budding, cagey, canny, causative, clever, conceptive, conceptual, constructive, crafty, creative, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, demiurgic, designing, diplomatic, elemental, elementary, embryonic, esemplastic, fecund, feline, fertile, fetal, formative, foundational, foxy, fruitful, fundamental, generative, germinal, gestatory, guileful, ideational, ideative, imaginative, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, ingenious, initial, initiative, initiatory, innovational, innovative, insidious, inspired, introductory, knowing, nascent, natal, notional, original, originative, parturient, pawky, politic, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, productive, prolific, ready, resourceful, rudimental, rudimentary, scheming, seminal, serpentine, shaping, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, teeming, trickish, tricksy, tricky, ur, visioned, vulpine, wary, wily