Main Entry: ¹cre·a·tive

Pronunciation: \krē-ˈā-tiv, ˈkrē-ˌ\

Function: adjective

Date: 1678

1 : marked by the ability or power to create : given to creating <the creative impulse>
2 : having the quality of something created rather than imitated : imaginative <the creative arts>
3 : managed so as to get around legal or conventional limits <creative financing>; also : deceptively arranged so as to conceal or defraud <creative accounting>

— cre·a·tive·ly adverb

— cre·a·tive·ness noun