creative
/kri:'eitiv/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Relating to or involving the use of imagination or original ideas to create something new: The word "creative" describes the ability to produce original work, ideas, or solutions through imagination and innovation.
- Having the quality of creating; constructive: It can also describe something that is productive and contributes to building or forming new things.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- She has a very creative mind and is always coming up with new inventions.
- The company is looking for creative solutions to this complex problem.
- Advertising is a creative industry that relies on original ideas.
Advanced Usage
- "creative with": using something in an imaginative or unconventional way.
- You have to be creative with a limited budget.
- "creative process": the sequence of thoughts and actions that leads to original work.
- The artist described her creative process as chaotic but rewarding.
Variants and Related Words
- Creativity (n): The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.
- Her creativity knows no bounds.
- Create (v): To bring something into existence.
- The chef will create a new menu for the season.
Synonyms
- Inventive: Having the ability to create or design new things.
- Imaginative: Having or showing creativity or inventiveness.
- Innovative: Featuring new methods; advanced and original.
Related Phrases
- Creative writing: Writing that expresses ideas and thoughts in an imaginative way, such as poetry or fiction.
- She teaches a course in creative writing.
- Creative director: A person in charge of the creative aspects of a project, especially in advertising or media.
- He was promoted to creative director at the agency.
Idioms
- Creative juices flowing: A state where one is feeling particularly imaginative and productive.
- After a walk in nature, my creative juices were flowing again.
- Creative license: The freedom to deviate from facts or conventions for artistic effect.
- The filmmaker took some creative license with the historical events.
Adjective
- promoting construction or creation
- creative work
- having the ability or power to create
- a creative imagination