Definition of CREATIVE

creative

Plural: creatives

Adjective

  • Relating to or involving imagination or original ideas.
  • having the ability or power to create
    • "a creative imagination"

Adjective Satellite

  • promoting construction or creation
    • "creative work"

Adj

  • Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
  • Original, expressive and imaginative.
  • A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
  • Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
  • bad, unartistic, busy.

Noun

  • A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
  • Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.

Examples

  • a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
  • a creative new solution to an old problem
  • a creative set
  • creative accounting
  • He is a visionary creative.
  • His creative use of a blank tile for the letter J was brilliant.
  • I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.
  • The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

originative, Promethean, inventive, original, pregnant

Scrabble Score: 13

creative: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
creative: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
creative: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

creative: valid Words With Friends Word