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発音

• IPA: /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/
• 韻: -eɪtɪv

形容詞

creative (comparative more creative, superlative most creative)

1. Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.

   Synonym: pregnant

   a creative dramatist who avoids cliche

   • 2025 January 23, Joshua Stylman, The Algorithmic Age‎:

     The future belongs to those aware enough to see the system, brave enough to reject it, and creative enough to build something better.

2. (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.

   a creative new solution to an old problem

3. (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.

   a creative set

4. Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.

   creative accounting

5. (euphemistic, of art) bad, unartistic, busy.

同意語

反意語

• imitative (tend to model an extant thing)
• annihilative (tend to make extinct)

派生語

関連する語

名詞

creative (countable and uncountable, plural creatives)

1. (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.

   He is a visionary creative.

2. (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.

   The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.

   I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.

参照

• “creative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• creative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• Raymond Williams (1983), “Creative”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 82.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “creative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

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