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creative

adj
/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from creō
  2. borrowed from creativus

Definitions

  1. Tending to create things, or having the ability to create

    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.

  2. Original, expressive and imaginative.

    • a creative new solution to an old problem

  3. A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.

    • a creative set
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.

      • creative accounting

    2. bad, unartistic, busy.

    3. A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.

      • He is a visionary creative.

    4. 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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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at creative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at creative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at creative

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA