creative
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
Example
“a creative dramatist who avoids cliche”
Other meanings
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”
Related words
- anticreative
- cocreative
- creativelike
- hypercreative
- miscreative
- noncreative
- overcreative
- precreative
- semicreative
- subcreative
- uncreative
- undercreative
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "creō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “creative” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.