Undercreative

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Insufficiently creative.

    "Near-synonym: uncreative"

Example

More examples

"Overmotivated people tend to persist with the obvious plan. Thus they tend to do well with simple problems but badly with difficult problems. Undercreative people also tend to persist with the obvious plan. Creative people have the flexibility to generate many plans and the persistence to test them all."

Etymology

From under- + creative.

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