adjective
- having the quality or power of creating.
- resulting from originality of thought, expression, etc.; imaginative: creative writing.
- originative; productive (usually followed by of).
- Facetious. using or creating exaggerated or skewed data, information, etc.: creative bookkeeping.
adjective
- having the ability to create
- characterized by originality of thought; having or showing imaginationa creative mind
- designed to or tending to stimulate the imaginationcreative toys
- characterized by sophisticated bending of the rules or conventionscreative accounting
noun
- a creative person, esp one who devises advertising campaigns
adj.1670s, “having the quality of creating,” from create + -ive. Of literature, “imaginative,” from 1816, first attested in Wordsworth. Creative writing is attested from 1907. Related: Creatively.