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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having the ability or power to create: Human beings are creative animals.
  2. adj. Productive; creating.
  3. adj. Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative: creative writing.
  4. n. One who displays productive originality: the creatives in the advertising department.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the power or function of creating or producing; employed in creating; relating to creation in any sense: as, the creative word of God; creative power; a creative imagination.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Tending to create things, or having the ability to create.
  2. adj. Original, expressive and imaginative.
  3. n. countable A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
  4. n. uncountable Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. promoting construction or creation
  2. adj. having the ability or power to create

Examples

  • “If there were, they might understand the term creative destruction and be more concerned about whether it applies to countries in addition to companies.”

    Simon & Schuster: Broke

  • “The most frustrating thing about the debate Bill Gates has started is that the term creative capitalism is so vague.”

    Simon & Schuster: Creative Capitalism

  • “The term creative capitalism was coined, or at least popularized, by the most successful capitalist in the history of the world.”

    Simon & Schuster: Creative Capitalism

  • “In this discussion the term creative capitalism has been seamlessly replaced by the likes of corporate social responsibility, corporate altruism, corporate charity, and corporate philanthropy.”

    Simon & Schuster: Creative Capitalism

  • “Joseph Schumpeter, the economist who coined the term "creative destruction," would be proud.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Why Software Is Eating The World

  • “The term creative writing was coined by Emerson in “The American Scholar” 1837 and was explicitly adopted by Hughes Mearns, a progressive educator who taught at the Lincoln School, the laboratory school of Teachers College, Columbia University, when he introduced the subject of creative writing into the curriculum for the first time.”

    Getting creative writing wrong

  • “If you think of the term creative endeavor or creative innovation, does starting a business or new business come to mind?”

    Ecommerce: A Creative New Endeavor

  • “In his book, The Creative Priority, Hirshberg wrote that "perhaps the most novel and all-encompassing management and interaction process to emerge from prioritizing creativity" was what he called "creative abrasion.”

    The Huffington Post: Joan Michelson: One Lesson from Steve Jobs We Missed - Embrace Conflict

  • “When he shuts down the avenue in July 2011, to transform it into what he calls a creative atelier, he plans to enjoy " every weekend, " something he cannot afford now because of his professional commitments.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Ferran Adri

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Other words for ‘creative’

  1. constructive
  1. yeasty
  1. notional
  1. inventive
  1. fictive
  1. fanciful
  1. imaginative

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. artistic
  1. social
  1. practical
  1. imaginative
  1. excite

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. native
  1. nonnative
  1. probative
  1. vegetative

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. imagination
  2. fecundity
  3. wizardry
  4. porn
  5. porno
  6. pornography
  7. genius
  8. erotica
  9. inventiveness
  10. smut
  11. cleverness
  12. fruitfulness
  13. ingeniousness
  14. ingenuity
  15. invention
  16. creative
  17. Bergson
  18. create
  19. Eros
  1. linga
  2. demiurgic
  3. dingdong theory
  4. creant
  5. creativeness
  6. imaginative
  7. omnific
  8. formful
  9. decreative
  10. deindividualization
  11. tocogenetic
  12. brainchild
  13. originative
  14. Ptah
  15. apathetic-sensitive
  16. auteur
  17. occupational therapy
  18. creatural
  19. Promethean
  1. opus
  2. inventive
  3. numen
  4. progeny
  5. seminal
  6. yeasty
  7. workshop
  8. auteur theory
  9. eyes-something
  10. development theory
  11. poietic
  12. uncreative
  13. vanguard
  14. afflatus
  15. Apollonian
  16. do
  17. pregnant
  18. scroll
  19. prajapati
  1. release
  2. self-expression
  3. vent
  4. artist
  5. demiurge
  6. director
  7. Dionysian
  8. fantasy
  9. mother
  10. medium
  11. literature
  12. polar
  13. inspiration
  14. output
  15. superman
  16. Logos
  17. fruitlessness
  18. literary composition
  19. literary work
  1. masterpiece
  2. new wave
  3. outlet
  4. portfolio
  5. school
  6. van
  7. avant-garde
  8. belles-lettres
  9. chef-d'oeuvre
  10. creative person
  11. creatively
  12. nonmechanistic
  13. archesthetism
  14. Cabiri
  15. causal
  16. creationism
  17. creator
  18. energy
  19. Fiat
  1. original
  2. demogenic

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  • writer723 [creative:
    –adjective
    Having the ability or power to create: Productive; creating.
    Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative: creative writing.] Apr 17, 2011

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