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undercreative

undercreative adjective: insufficiently creative.

Adjective

undercreative (comparative more undercreative, superlative most undercreative)

  1. Insufficiently creative.
    • Near-synonym: uncreative
    • Overmotivated people tend to persist with the obvious plan. Thus they tend to do well with simple problems but badly with difficult problems. Undercreative people also tend to persist with the obvious plan. Creative people have the flexibility to generate many plans and the persistence to test them...1973, W. Lambert Gardiner, An Invitation to Cognitive Psychology, Monterey, C.A.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 130
    Synonyms:
    uncreative
    Antonyms:
    overcreative

Synonyms of undercreative

Antonyms

Forms of undercreative

comparativemore undercreative
superlativemost undercreative

Origin of undercreative

From under- + creative.

Questions about undercreative

What does undercreative mean?
Undercreative means insufficiently creative.
What part of speech is undercreative?
Undercreative is an adjective.

Words near undercreative in the dictionary

  1. undercrafts
  2. undercrank
  3. undercranked
  4. undercranking
  5. undercranks
  6. undercreative
  7. undercreep
  8. undercreeping
  9. undercreeps
  10. undercrept
  11. undercrest

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