creative
/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/
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creative adjective: tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
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
- The future belongs to those aware enough to see the system, brave enough to reject it, and creative enough to build something better.2025 January 23, Joshua Stylman, The Algorithmic Age
- Synonyms:
- pregnant, originative
- Original, expressive and imaginative.
- a creative new solution to an old problem
- A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
- a creative set
- Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
- creative accounting and bookkeeping
- bad, unartistic, busy.
Noun
creative (countable and uncountable, plural creatives)
- A person directly involved in a creative process; a creator of creative content.
- He is a visionary creative.
- In a speech in Sydney, he promised Australia's laws "will spell … out" clear protections for creatives who permit AI to train on their books, music and art, and also implied further work to come on the copyright issue.2026 July 16, Clare Armstrong, “AI office urged to include artists after Anthony Albanese's copyright promise”, in ABC News
- 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.
creative meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
creative in Hindi
- having the ability to create
- रचनात्मकता racnātmaktā
- original, expressive, and imaginative
- रचनात्मक racnātmak
creative in Tamil
- ஆக்க, படைப்புத்திற, படைக்கும் திறனுள்ள, புதிது ஆக்கும் ஆற்றலுடைய, படைக்கிற, தோற்றுவிக்கிற
creative in Marathi
- creative
- सृजनशील srujanśīl
creative in Urdu
- تخلیقی
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- creative in Bengali
- সৃজনী, উদ্ভাবনী, উদ্ভাবক, সৃজনক্ষম
- creative in Telugu
- సృజనాత్మక sr̥janātmaka
- creative in Malayalam
- സൃഷ്ടിപരം, രചനാത്മക, ക്രിയാത്മക, ഉൽപാദകം
- creative in Kannada
- ಉಂಟುಮಾಡಬಲ್ಲ, ಹೊಸೆಯಬಲ್ಲ
- creative in Punjabi
- ਰਚਨਾਤਮਕ, ਸਿਰਜਣਾਤਮਕ
- creative in Gujarati
- સર્જનાત્મક
- creative in Odia
- ସୃଜନଶୀଳ
- creative in Nepali
- रचनात्मक, सृजनात्मक
- creative in Tagalog
- malikhain
- creative in Arabic
- إِبْداعِيّ ʔibdāʕiyy, خَلَّاق ḵallāq, مُبْدِع mubdiʕ
- creative in Malay
- berdaya cipta, kreatif
- creative in Persian
- خلاق xallaġ
- creative in Thai
- สร้างสรรค์ sâang-sǎn
- creative in Vietnamese
- sáng tạo
Examples of creative in a sentence
- I miss my drawing arc. I feel like I was much more creative back then.
- It's a very creative job, allowing us a great deal of latitude.
- They had to think originally to come up with those creative ideas.
Synonyms of creative
Antonyms
Forms of creative
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more creative |
| superlative | most creative |
| Noun | |
| plural | creatives |
Origin of creative
Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.
Words formed from creative
- 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
Phrases with creative
Words that rhyme with creative
- native
- dative
- translative
- equative
- illative
- collative
- induplicative
- innative
- optative
- prolative
- stative
- sublative
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Questions about creative
- What does creative mean?
- Creative means tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
- What is creative in Hindi?
- Creative in Hindi is रचनात्मकता (racnātmaktā), रचनात्मक (racnātmak). See Creative meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is creative?
- Creative can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce creative?
- Creative is pronounced /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/.
Words near creative in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: creative (page history and authors); creative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सृजनशील (Marathi) (page history and authors); creative (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); creative (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); creative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); creative (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); creative (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); creative (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); creative (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); creative (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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