creative
/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/ adjective A2- 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
- Original, expressive and imaginative. · a creative new solution to an old problem
- A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic. · a creative set
- Designed or executed to deceive or mislead. · creative accounting and bookkeeping
- bad, unartistic, busy.
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She saw, with the creative eye of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers.
In one well-known study, people who first spent fifteen minutes copying numbers from a phone book later came up with more creative uses for a pair of plastic cups than people who had skipped the dull task.
You studied something creative when you went to college a few years ago.
This creative mixing makes casual conversations lively, modern, and very colorful.
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