English Explanatory Dictionary

creative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
  2. Original, expressive and imaginative.
  3. A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
  4. Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
  5. bad, unartistic, busy.
noun
  1. A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
  2. Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.

Pronunciation

/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-creative.wav

Word forms

creative more creative most creative creatives

Etymology

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

Synonyms

inventive original Promethean pregnant

Antonyms

imitative annihilative

Related words

create creation creationism creationist creator

Derived words

anticreative cocreative creatify creative accounting creative block creative class creative destruction creative differences creative energy creativelike creatively creativeness creative nonfiction creative sentence creative sentencing creative set creative spelling creative work creative writing creativity creativize hypercreative miscreative noncreative overcreative precreative pre-creative semicreative subcreative uncreative undercreative
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