How do you pronounce creative?

The recorded pronunciation is /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/.

creative

/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables: cre-ative
IPA: /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/

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Meaning

adj

Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.

adj

Original, expressive and imaginative.

adj

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

adj

Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.

adj

bad, unartistic, busy.

noun

A person directly involved in a creative process; a creator of creative content.

Countable

noun

Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"a creative dramatist who avoids cliche"
"The future belongs to those aware enough to see the system, brave enough to reject it, and creative enough to build something better."
"a creative new solution to an old problem"
"a creative set"
"creative accounting and bookkeeping"
"He is a visionary creative."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: creō

Usage

Inflected Forms

more creative (comparative) most creative (superlative) creatives (plural)

Derived Forms

anticreative cocreative creatify creativelike creatively creativeness creativity creativize hypercreative miscreative noncreative overcreative

Phrases

creative accounting creative block creative class creative destruction creative differences creative energy creative nonfiction creative sentence

Frequently Paired Words

create creation creationism creationist creator

Synonyms

pregnant originative inventive original Promethean

Antonyms

imitative annihilative

Rhymes With

native non-native vegetative educative probative nonnative dative uncreative stative optative rotative elative