English Online Dictionary. What means creative? What does creative mean?
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/
- Rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Adjective
creative (comparative more creative, superlative most creative)
- Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
- (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
- Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
- (euphemistic, of art) bad, unartistic, busy.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- imitative (tend to model an extant thing)
- annihilative (tend to make extinct)
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Translations
Noun
creative (countable and uncountable, plural creatives)
- (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
- (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
Translations
References
- “creative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- creative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "creative" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 82.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “creative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- reactive
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kre.aˈti.ve/
- Rhymes: -ive
- Hyphenation: cre‧a‧tì‧ve
Adjective
creative f pl
- feminine plural of creativo
Anagrams
- createvi, recatevi