creative

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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creative (kriːˈeɪtɪv)

—*adj*
1.	having the ability to create
2.	characterized by originality of thought; having or showing imagination: a creative mind
3.	designed to or tending to stimulate the imagination: creative toys
4.	characterized by sophisticated bending of the rules or conventions: creative accounting

—n
5.	a creative person, esp one who devises advertising campaigns

cre'atively

—*adv*

cre'ativeness

—n

crea'tivity

—n

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Word Origin & History

creative

1680s, "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 (1840); creativity (1875).

Example sentences

We were all focused on the same thing, and it was really creative and ambitious.

Designing genomes will be a personal thing, a new art form as creative as

painting or sculpture.

But the real creative and destructive process of communication goes on in

jumps, and crisscross jumps at that.

Your creative self is taking over, even if you haven't noticed.

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"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing."

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