# creative
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create +‎ -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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.
    a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
** 2025 January 23, Joshua Stylman, The Algorithmic Age‎:The future belongs to those aware enough to see the system, brave enough to reject it, and creative enough to build something better.
* (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
    a creative new solution to an old problem
* (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
    a creative set
* Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
    creative accounting
* (euphemistic, of art) bad, unartistic, busy.

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* inventive
* original

#### Antonyms

* imitative (tend to model an extant thing)
* annihilative (tend to make extinct)

#### Derived terms

* anticreative
* cocreative
* creatify
* creative accounting
* creative block
* creative class
* creative destruction
* creative differences
* creative energy
* creativelike
* creatively
* creativeness
* creative nonfiction
* creative sentence, creative sentencing
* creative set
* creative spelling
* creative work
* creative writing
* creativity
* creativize
* hypercreative
* miscreative
* noncreative
* overcreative
* precreative
* pre-creative
* semicreative
* subcreative
* uncreative
* undercreative

#### Related terms

* create
* creation
* creationism
* creationist
* creator

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### Noun

creative (countable and uncountable, plural creatives)
* (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
    He is a visionary creative.
* (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
    The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
    I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.

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### 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: /kre.aˈti.ve/
* Rhymes: -ive
* Hyphenation: cre‧a‧tì‧ve

### Adjective

creative f pl
* feminine plural of creativo

### Anagrams

* createvi, recatevi