Antonyms for creative

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kree-ey-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : kriˈeɪ tɪv

Definition of creative

Origin : 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.

adj artistic, imaginative

Example sentences :

It would not be in accord with creative energy that I should go backward.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

After that, I hope to be able to recreate my creative faculty.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

On what agonies of creative and original minds is the safety of their homes based?
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

Of the creative arts, there is one part purer or more akin to knowledge than the other.
Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato

Of the creative arts, then, we may make two classes—the less exact and the more exact.
Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato

There is more rhythm than reason; the creative power of imagination is wanting.
Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato

The creative power abating is supplemented by a mechanical process.
Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato

Because when they speak of nature they seem to mean the first creative power.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Synonyms for creative

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