Adjective
creative (comparative more creative, superlative most creative)
- 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
- (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
a creative new solution to an old problem
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
a creative set
- Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
creative accounting
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Translations
having the ability to create
- Arabic: خَلَّاق (ḵallāq), إِبْداعِيّ (ʔibdāʕiyy)
- Armenian: ստեղծարար (hy) (steġcarar), ստեղծագործ (hy) (steġcagorc), ստեղծագործական (hy) (steġcagorcakan), կրեատիվ (hy) (kreativ)
- Belarusian: тво́рчы (tvórčy)
- Bulgarian: творчески (bg) (tvorčeski), съзидателен (bg) (sǎzidatelen)
- Catalan: creatiu (ca)
- Chinese:
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- Czech: tvořivý (cs)
- Dutch: creatief (nl)
- Esperanto: krea, kreema
- Finnish: luova (fi)
- French: créatif (fr)
- Galician: creativo
- Georgian: შემოქმედებითი (šemokmedebiti), კრეატიული (ḳreaṭiuli)
- German: kreativ (de), schöpferisch (de)
- Greek: δημιουργικός (el) (dimiourgikós)
- Hebrew: יצירתי (he) m (yetsiratí)
- Hungarian: alkotó (hu), kreatív (hu)
- Icelandic: skapandi
- Italian: creativo (it)
- Japanese: 創造的な (ja) (sōzōteki na), 独創的 (ja) (dokusōteki na)
- Khmer: ច្នៃប្រឌិត (cnayprɑɑdɨt)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: berdaya cipta, kreatif
- Maori: auaha
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: skapende
- Old English: orþanclīċ
- Polish: twórczy (pl)
- Portuguese: criativo (pt), criador (pt)
- Romanian: creativ (ro), creator (ro), inventiv (ro)
- Russian: созида́тельный (ru) (sozidátelʹnyj), тво́рческий (ru) (tvórčeskij)
- Spanish: creativo (es)
- Swedish: kreativ (sv)
- Tagalog: malikhain
- Telugu: సృజనాత్మక (sr̥janātmaka)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: yaratıcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: тво́рчий (uk) (tvórčyj)
- Vietnamese: sáng tạo (vi)
- Welsh: creadigol (cy)
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original, expressive, and imaginative
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Noun
creative (countable and uncountable, plural creatives)
- (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
He is a visionary creative.
- (uncountable) 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.
I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.
Translations
person directly involved in a creative marketing process
artistic material
- Finnish: visumateriaali, visut pl
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References
- “creative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- creative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "creative" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 82.
- “creative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.