creative

[kree-ey-tiv] /kriˈeɪ tɪv/

adjective

having the quality or power of creating.

resulting from originality of thought, expression, etc.; imaginative:

creative writing.

originative; productive (usually followed by of).

Facetious. using or creating exaggerated or skewed data, information, etc.:

creative bookkeeping.

Origin

1670-80; create + -ive

Related forms

creatively, adverb

creativeness, noun

anticreative, adjective

anticreatively, adverb

anticreativeness, noun

noncreative, adjective

noncreatively, adverb

noncreativeness, noun

subcreative, adjective

subcreatively, adverb

subcreativeness, noun

uncreative, adjective

uncreatively, adverb

uncreativeness, noun

Examples from the web for creative

But the real creative and destructive process of communication goes on in jumps, and crisscross jumps at that.
The truth was knottier, as it often is with creative artists and their managers.
By his own account he had a great time writing it, and for the first few hundred pages his creative excitement is infectious.
Designing genomes will be a personal thing, a new art form as creative as painting or sculpture.
creative destruction is now the rule, not stability.
To see the filmmaker's signature aesthetic develop over time is a neat study in the creative process.
We were all focused on the same thing, and it was really creative and ambitious.
The steps you've taken to support your creative endeavors begin to make sense.
Your creative self is taking over, even if you haven't noticed.
Death in the midst of this creative activity, his health deteriorated.

British Dictionary definitions for creative

creative

/kriːˈeɪtɪv/

adjective

having the ability to create

characterized by originality of thought; having or showing imagination: a creative mind

designed to or tending to stimulate the imagination: creative toys

characterized by sophisticated bending of the rules or conventions: creative accounting

noun

a creative person, esp one who devises advertising campaigns

Derived Forms

creatively, adverb
creativeness, noun
creativity, noun

Word Origin and History for creative

adj.

1670s, "having the quality of creating," from create + -ive. Of literature, "imaginative," from 1816, first attested in Wordsworth. Creative writing is attested from 1907. Related: Creatively.