Creative

//kɹiˈeɪtɪv// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1
A person directly involved in a creative marketing process. countable
"He is a visionary creative."
2
Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video. uncountable
"The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign."

Adjective

1
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
"a creative dramatist who avoids cliche"
2
Original, expressive and imaginative.
"a creative new solution to an old problem"
3
A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
"a creative set"
4
Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
"creative accounting"
5
bad, unartistic, busy. euphemistic

Adjective

1
promoting construction or creation wordnet
2
having the ability or power to create wordnet

Synonyms

generative abecedarian aboriginal abundant all powerful all seeing

Antonyms

annihilative imitative uncreative

Example

"Machinery robs work of creative interest."

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.

Related phrases

creative accounting creative block creative class creative destruction creative differences creative energy creative nonfiction creative sentence creative sentencing creative set creative spelling creative work

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