creative

¹cre·a·tive

adj \krē-ˈā-tiv, ˈkrē-ˌ\

Definition of CREATIVE

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

Examples of CREATIVE

1. She's a very creative person.
2. She has one of the most creative minds in the business.
3. They've come up with some creative new ways to make money.
4. a creative solution to a difficult problem
5. He teaches creative writing at the university.
6. the first step in the creative process
7. It turns out that the company's report of record profits last year was due to some creative accounting.

First Known Use of CREATIVE

1678

Related to CREATIVE

Synonyms: clever, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inventive, original, originative, Promethean

Antonyms: uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unoriginal

Related Words: gifted, inspired, talented; resourceful; fecund, fertile, fruitful, generative, germinal, productive, prolific

Near Antonyms: imitative, uninspired; infertile, unproductive; talentless

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Rhymes with CREATIVE

ablative, constative, dilative, mutative, placative, translative