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creative Definition

crea·tive (krē āt′iv)

adjective

  1. creating or able to create
  2. having or showing imagination and artistic or intellectual inventiveness creative writing
  3. stimulating the imagination and inventive powers creative toys
  4. imaginatively or inventively deceptive creative accounting

Etymology: ML creativus

creative Related Forms
crea′·tively adverb crea′·tive·ness noun
creative Synonyms

creative

modif.

inventive, imaginative, formative, productive; see artistic 2, original 2.

creative Usage Examples

Preposition: at

  • time: The summer holidays are a great time for spending valuable time with our children and being creative at the same time.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • do: If literally doing nothing at all is impossible, do something creative with the hands.

Modifies a noun

  • writing: Have you had any formal tuition in creative writing?
  • thinking: Schizophrenia: Creative thinking Could some aspects provide an evolutionary advantage?
  • talent: The industry is a recognized seedbed for creative talent.
  • license: All my images have a Creative Commons license on them.
  • industry: Creative offices are now found in many sectors, not just the ' creative industries ' .
  • partnership: The project is supported by Knowle West Media Center in partnership with Creative Partnerships, Kickin ' Space Youth Project, & local schools.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: In order to satisfy this demand E-commerce 123 has gathered a team of highly creative experienced website developers.
  • exceptionally: Is NESTA's Fellowship project for young people and it supports exceptionally creative young people aged between 10 and 21 years old.
  • genuinely: What separates the genuinely creative artist from the rest of us?
  • extremely: You are extremely creative in more than one area and enjoy speculating.
  • very: Students can do very creative things with tools like these.
  • particularly: I haven't yet been particularly creative with it, just been using the very good presets.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: Getting creative You can add more extreme color shifts in Photoshop to great creative effect.
  • teach: Having graduated from Lancaster University's Creative Writing Program with distinction, she now teaches Creative Writing for the University.
  • become: In fact, there are ways in which we can help ourselves become more creative.
  • combine: Some jobs may combine creative with technical skills, such as technical jobs in the arts like a lighting technician.
  • provide: QCA 14-19 learning provides advice on providing creative, flexible and differentiated responses in the 14 to19 curriculum to meet individual needs.

Preposition: with

  • ability: The program demands that students are well-organised, committed and creative with academic ability and a passion for design.
creative Quotes

But reading is not idleness†it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

—Cantona, Eric

Today musicians listen to see who makes the most money on a style, and then they set to copying him. And they don't copy the ones that are beautiful, creative and good.

—Mingus, Charles

Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs Ape.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

  The male quality is the creative gift.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

—Issigonis, SirAlec (AlexanderArnold Constantine)

People in this country haven't got the cinema in their bloodöthe real creative talent has been drained off into theatre.

—Richardson,Tony (Cecil Antonio)

This isnot to pretend that reading is a passive act.On the contrary, it is highly creative, or re-creative; itself an art.

—Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel

Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldöin fugitive dreams and illusions.

—Quennell, Sir Peter Courtney

You have been the victim of creative suffering.

—King, Martin LutherJr