## Meanings
1. Having or showing original ideas and imagination.
2. Involving the use of imagination to make things.
3. A person who works in a creative field such as design or advertising.

## Examples
- They found a creative new solution to an old problem.
- She enjoys creative work like painting and writing.
- The agency hired several talented creatives.

## Synonyms
- inventive
- original
- promethean

## Antonyms
- annihilative
- imitative

## Derived Forms
- anticreative
- cocreative
- creatify
- creativelike
- creatively
- creativeness
- creativity
- creativize
- hypercreative
- miscreative
- noncreative
- overcreative

## Related Forms
- create
- creation
- creationism
- creationist
- creator

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: creō
- Affix: -ive - tending to
- Affix: -ative - tending to

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

## AI Etymology
creative was borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ. Current senses include Having or showing original ideas and imagination and Involving the use of imagination to make things. English relatives and later formations include anticreative, cocreative, creatify, create, creation.

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