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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. Show More
Origin of creative First recorded in
1670–80; create +
-ive Related forms cre·a·tive·ly , adverb cre·a·tive·ness , noun an·ti·cre·a·tive , adjective an·ti·cre·a·tive·ly , adverb an·ti·cre·a·tive·ness , noun non·cre·a·tive , adjective non·cre·a·tive·ly , adverb non·cre·a·tive·ness , noun sub·cre·a·tive , adjective sub·cre·a·tive·ly , adverb sub·cre·a·tive·ness , noun un·cre·a·tive , adjective un·cre·a·tive·ly , adverb un·cre·a·tive·ness , noun Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Examples from the Web for creatively Contemporary Examples of creatively Lonergan has endured a creatively brutal time since the success of This Is Our Youth.
Creatively , I admire people like [Jean] Debuffet and Isamu Noguchi.
Once the budget has been creatively handled, a director still faces the arduous task of casting.
Creatively called the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act,” it formed the basis for their messaging on the law.
But is Prism, as it has been hyped by its musical masterminds, the debut of a creatively all-grown-up Perry?
Historical Examples of creatively To leave her was to have her as a moon in the heavens and to think of her creatively .
To estimate and interpret the work of an artist is to be creatively just to him.
Further, He must be a God who acts freely and creatively and who is in time.
That is in all cases the primary thing in him, and creatively determines all the rest; that is his religion.
One actual method of the use of thought is to use it, creatively , for the immediate future.
British Dictionary definitions for creatively having the ability to create characterized by originality of thought; having or showing imagination a creative mind designed to or tending to stimulate the imagination creative toys characterized by sophisticated bending of the rules or conventions creative accounting Show More
a creative person, esp one who devises advertising campaigns Show More
Derived Forms creatively , adverb creativeness , noun creativity , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for creatively 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 .
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