Create

Quick meaning: Create is a verb meaning (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:).

Meaning

(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
2. (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
3. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
4. (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
5. (UK, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
6. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.

Example Sentences

… God created man a moral agent.

You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red.

crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties

A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.

Word Forms

• creates
• creating
• created
• createst
• createdst
• createth

Synonyms for create

Depending on context, synonyms include cause, contrive, develop, engender, evolve, generate.

Antonyms for create

Common opposites include destroy, annihilate, extinguish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include make, produce, creation, shape, invent, instill.

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