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CREATIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Promoting construction or creation
Example:
creative work
Classified under:
Similar:
constructive (constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development)
Derivation:
create (create by artistic means)
create (pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity)
create (bring into existence)
creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the ability or power to create
Example:
a creative imagination
Synonyms:
creative; originative
Classified under:
Similar:
fanciful; notional (indulging in or influenced by fancy)
fictive (capable of imaginative creation)
imaginative; inventive ((used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action)
yeasty (exuberantly creative)
Also:
original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)
productive (producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly))
Attribute:
creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)
Antonym:
uncreative (not creative)
Derivation:
create (create by artistic means)
create (pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity)
creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)
Context examples:
This is not necessarily because these deficiencies represent needles in a haystack, but because in a new and creative and perhaps eclectic intellectual product, any one of these opportunities for improvement may stand out only to someone with a particular expertise and/or history of experience.
(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)
On this same day, the Sun will work with creative Neptune from your workaday sector.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It might be a sign that you're really smart and creative.
(Daydreaming Is Good: It Means You're Smart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
All his creative output had been flung to the public in one magnificent sweep.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Finally, December 27 will be an outstanding day to work on a creative project or to show it to the world.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Once they figured out how the brain works together at rest, the team compared the data with tests the participants that measured their intellectual and creative ability.
(Daydreaming Is Good: It Means You're Smart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The creative joy in its noblest form!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Going back to my spotlight on November 8, I also love this day for working on creative expressions or showing others what you have achieved.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Swept away by the creative impulse, he got off the electric car, without vexation, two blocks beyond his crossing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Later in the month, near February 21, you will shine when you announce your ideas for a creative project.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
