creative

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   promoting construction or creation

   creative work

2. 2
   adj

   having the ability or power to create

   a creative imagination

3. 3
   adj

   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

4. 4
   adj

   Original, expressive and imaginative.

   a creative new solution to an old problem

5. 5
   adj

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

   a creative set

6. 6
   adj

   Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.

   creative accounting

7. 7
   noun

   A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.

   He is a visionary creative.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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