Entry Word: creative

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having the skill and imagination to create new things <Thomas Edisonʼs status as perhaps Americaʼs greatest creative genius>

Synonyms imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inventive, original

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

Near Antonyms imitative, uninspired; infertile, unproductive

Antonyms uncreative, unimaginative, unoriginal

2 showing a use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing <looking for creative and skillful writing in studentsʼ themes> — see clever 1