creative
adjectivenouncommon in dialogue
- //kɹiˈeɪtɪv//
- //kəˈɹeɪtɪv//
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
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
The future belongs to those aware enough to see the system, brave enough to reject it, and creative enough to build something better.
- 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 and bookkeeping
- 5
bad, unartistic, busy.
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.
noun
- 1
A person directly involved in a creative process; a creator of creative content.
He is a visionary creative.
In a speech in Sydney, he promised Australia's laws "will spell … out" clear protections for creatives who permit AI to train on their books, music and art, and also implied further work to come on the copyright issue.
- 2
Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.
Forms
- plural
- creatives
- comparative
- more creative
- superlative
- most creative
creative · Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
creativity · The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or…Creativity · A nontheistic religion based on religious naturalism and…creator · Something or someone which creates or makes something.