Synonyms for creative


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kree-ey-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : kriˈeɪ tɪv

Top 10 synonyms for creative Other synonyms for the word creative

Définition 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

Antonyms for creative

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