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re-creative

re-creative adjective: that creates again or in a new way.

Adjective

re-creative

  1. That creates again or in a new way.
    • The hiſtorian only collects the matter of the day, and hands it to poſterity; but the antiquarian brings his treaſures from remote ages, and preſents them to this: he examines forgotten repoſitories, calls things back into exiſtence, which are paſt; counteracts the efforts of time, and of death...1783, W[illiam] Hutton, “Gentlemen’s Seats”, in An History of Birmingham. […], 2nd edition, Birmingham, Warwickshire: […] Pearson and Rollason; [a]nd sold by R. Baldwin, […] B. White, […], →OCLC...
    • Mutely each re-creative lay outpour’d / Its own revealings; / Youth, manhood, age, were momently restored, / With all their feelings.1846, Horace Smith, “Prefatory Stanzas”, in The Poetical Works of Horace Smith, […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 4

Origin of re-creative

From re- + creative.

Questions about re-creative

What does re-creative mean?
Re-creative means that creates again or in a new way.
What part of speech is re-creative?
Re-creative is an adjective.

Words near re-creative in the dictionary

  1. re-created
  2. re-creates
  3. re-creating
  4. re-creation
  5. re-creations
  6. re-creative
  7. re-cross-examination
  8. re-cross-examinations
  9. re-cultivate
  10. re-defect
  11. re-defected

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