Creative

Quick meaning: Creative is an adjective meaning Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.

Meaning

Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.

More Meanings

1. (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
2. (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
3. Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
4. (euphemistic, of art) bad, unartistic, busy.
5. (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
6. (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.

Example Sentences

a creative set

creative accounting

He is a visionary creative.

a creative dramatist who avoids cliche

Word Forms

• creatives

Synonyms for creative

Depending on context, synonyms include inventive, original, pregnant, ingenious, fanciful, constructive.

Antonyms for creative

Common opposites include imitative, annihilative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imaginative, inventive, ingenious, originative, notional, fictive.

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