creative

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. - 2025 January 23, Joshua Stylman, The Algorithmic Age:

    Synonyms: pregnant

  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
  5. bad, unartistic, busy.

Origin

Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.

Forms

more creative most creative

Synonyms

inventive original Promethean

Antonyms

imitative annihilative

Related

create creation creationism creationist creator

Derived

anticreative cocreative creatify creative accounting creative block creative class creative destruction creative differences creative energy creativelike creatively creativeness creative nonfiction creative sentence creative sentencing creative set creative spelling creative work creative writing creativity creativize hypercreative miscreative noncreative

Noun

  1. A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
    • He is a visionary creative.
  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

creatives