creative

[kree-ey-tiv]

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.

Origin of creative

First recorded in 1670–80; create + -ive

Related formscre·a·tive·ly, adverbcre·a·tive·ness, nounan·ti·cre·a·tive, adjectivean·ti·cre·a·tive·ly, adverban·ti·cre·a·tive·ness, nounnon·cre·a·tive, adjectivenon·cre·a·tive·ly, adverbnon·cre·a·tive·ness, nounsub·cre·a·tive, adjectivesub·cre·a·tive·ly, adverbsub·cre·a·tive·ness, nounun·cre·a·tive, adjectiveun·cre·a·tive·ly, adverbun·cre·a·tive·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for creatively

Contemporary Examples

Lonergan has endured a creatively brutal time since the success of This Is Our Youth.
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Tom Teodorczuk
September 12, 2014
Creatively, I admire people like [Jean] Debuffet and Isamu Noguchi.
Lina Viktor Is the Artist Who Paints With Gold
Erin Cunningham
May 23, 2014
Once the budget has been creatively handled, a director still faces the arduous task of casting.
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March 15, 2014
Creatively called the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act,” it formed the basis for their messaging on the law.
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March 5, 2014
But is Prism, as it has been hyped by its musical masterminds, the debut of a creatively all-grown-up Perry?
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October 22, 2013

Historical Examples

To leave her was to have her as a moon in the heavens and to think of her creatively.
The Amazing Marriage, Complete
George Meredith
To estimate and interpret the work of an artist is to be creatively just to him.
Auguste Rodin
Rainer Maria Rilke
Further, He must be a God who acts freely and creatively and who is in time.
Bergson and His Philosophy
J. Alexander Gunn
That is in all cases the primary thing in him, and creatively determines all the rest; that is his religion.
The Builders
Joseph Fort Newton
One actual method of the use of thought is to use it, creatively, for the immediate future.
The Life Radiant
Lilian Whiting

British Dictionary definitions for creatively

creative

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

Derived Formscreatively, adverbcreativeness, nouncreativity, noun

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Word Origin and History for creatively

creative

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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Examples from the Web for creatively

Contemporary Examples

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

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.

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Word Origin and History for creatively

creative

adj.

Origin of creative