creativecre‧a‧tive1 /kriˈeɪtɪv/ ●●○ W3 adjective 
This job is so boring. I wish I could do something more creative. I teach creative writing at Trinity College. the creative process of writing a poem Diaghilev did his great creative work in France. a creative solution to the problem2someone who is creative is very good at using their imagination to make things: You’re so creative! I could never make my own clothes.—creatively adverb—creativeness noun [uncountable]
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- creative architectural designs
- Children should be allowed to develop their creative as well as their academic abilities.
- Davis was one of the most creative jazz musicians of our time.
- Ed, you are so creative - where did you learn to draw like that?
- I enjoy my job, but I'd like to do something more creative.
- Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most creative directors.
- This year's prize goes to the creative young author Ben Williams.
- We encourage the children to use their creative abilities.
- We need someone creative and enthusiastic to take this project forward.
- But it also contains many plot elements with which you can be creative.
- But there was next to no creative intellectual stimulation.
- Communities are more flexible and creative than large service bureaucracies.
- I move confidently among the technicians, the ideas-men and creative consultants, the engineers and fine-tuners.
- It's creative recycling as much as material recycling.
- Our goals-peace based on military strength and creative foreign policy, economic growth, tax re-form, and fiscal sanity-would never change.
- Some groups are very decisive, very productive, very creative and very satisfying for their members.
- The creative advertiser has the function of stimulating arousal in buyers.
Longman Language Activatorgood at producing art
someone who is artistic is very good at drawing, painting, or sculpture: · She described her mother as 'very intelligent and artistic'.· That's a lovely picture - I never realized you were so artistic.
having a lot of imagination and able to think of new and original ideas in art, music, or literature: · We encourage the children to use their creative abilities.· Ed, you are so creative - where did you learn to draw like that?· Davis was one of the most creative jazz musicians of our time.
good at thinking of new ideas good at using your imagination to think of new ideas or to produce new things: · Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most creative directors.· We need someone creative and enthusiastic to take this project forward.creative abilities/faculties: · Children should be allowed to develop their creative as well as their academic abilities.
use this about someone who is very good at thinking of new and unusual ways of doing things: · He was one of the most original and imaginative writers of his time.· Marr had a brilliant inventive mind.· the most inventive sculptor since Picasso
informal to have a lot of new ideas and to want to tell people all about them: · Ron was full of ideas and seemed very enthusiastic about the show.· I don't know what's the matter. She's usually so bright and full of clever ideas.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I teach creative writing at Trinity College. the creative process of writing a poem Diaghilev did his great creative work in France. a creative solution to the problemCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a job for which artistic flair is essential
I teach creative writing at Trinity College. the creative process of writing a poem Diaghilev did his great creative work in France. a creative solution to the problem· You do not need to have any artistic ability.
(=thinking of new ideas and methods)· International business requires a more creative approach.
(=that makes you want to write, draw, paint etc)· We have seen an explosion of creative energy from the band this year.
(=expressing something in a creative way, for example in music or art)· They work with the children to encourage creative expression.
a job for which artistic flair is essential· I don't have the creative imagination to be a writer.
(=which inspires someone to create something new, for example a story or a work of art)· Her creative inspiration is evident in this series of sculptures.
· A music teacher should have a real interest in developing children’s creative powers.
· The art program is meant to bring out children’s creative side.
· It was at school that Brian’s musical talents were spotted.
(=when you use your imagination to produce new ideas or things)· Her solution to the problem was an example of good creative thinking.
(=the writing of fiction)· He is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Michigan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Among the adoptees themselves the most highly creative showed an excessive rate of mental illness - as much as 30 percent.· There may be tendencies to stereotype a scholar and thus ignore his highly creative experience.· This denigrated order is highly creative and productive, and women's closeness to each other persists within it.· He was a marketing vice president and a highly creative and task-oriented person with a natural inclination toward dominant behavior.· All four of these requisites contribute to the performances of scholars and are essential for highly creative roles.
· Two examples are given here to illustrate how socially useful design could make a fuller and more creative use of new technologies.· The other part is pushing chefs to become more creative to have hit restaurants.· Giving you the freedom to be more creative and productive.· He said they tend to be more eloquent and more creative because their experiences are mostly singular.· Hilton's use of language in Scale 2 is more creative than in Scale 1.· Spending money in more creative ways.· This helps them to produce work substantially more creative and thoughtful than what they have been able to do before.· Ever notice how they seem so much more creative than ours?
· But this fraction is the most creative, he says.· Hyphens Hyphens, perhaps the most creative punctuation marks, join two or more words to create a single word.· The most creative artists were by no means always preoccupied by social criticism.· It impelled her toward her most creative acts.· For this, the work of Carl Jung has offered some of the most creative wisdom.· The most creative work will be done without regard for an immediate audience.· Devising and working on projects is one of the most creative ways of managing people for profit.· Capitalization Of all writing-related issues, people get most creative with capitalization.
· She was, they said, very creative.· Can you imagine Pablo Picasso in a very regimented place, a very creative person?· Some groups are very decisive, very productive, very creative and very satisfying for their members.
NOUN· The creative act is indeed anarchic.· The creative act was seen as heroic, the proof of an elevated level of existence.· Indeed, improvisation is a performer's greatest creative act.· It impelled her toward her most creative acts.· As a creative act architecture can exist without building.
· Teaching is supposed to be a creative activity, carried out by professional people, not by robots.· The creative activity of Zeus accounts for the genesis of the world.· He said that the essential ingredient of that, or any creative activity, was love.· But my interest is also in their interest in my creative activities, which includes ballet, opera and multimedia things.· Soloist John Kenny has a career which embraces a number of creative activities - composing, playing, acting.· Out of season Formentera is a haven for writers and artists; the ambience is conducive to all creative activity.· Despite all this creative activity Mozart composed no original symphonies until his trip to Paris in 1778.· Art is seen as an exercise in fine motor skills or appreciation of nature and not as a creative activity.
· However, a really creative approach can be a great attention-fixer and have a lasting effect.· You encourage the creative approach and the unusual ideas.· Having access to the creative approaches to the reforms in other authorities was really useful.· A creative approach to the use of family therapy techniques with later life families is to be encouraged.· How to present them Sometimes a creative approach can give added interest to the pack.
· They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance.· The staggering ego of this brilliant, creative artist needs your help regaining its feet.· For the record Twentieth-century Old Masters Joni, deliberate counterfeiter or creative artist?· The most creative artists were by no means always preoccupied by social criticism.· The creative artist may manipulate a medium until something of interest turns up.
· Those three tasks are familiar to almost everyone involved in creative collaboration.· But creative collaboration is a two-way street.· As the real-life Oppenheimer so clearly did, the screen Oppie knows his creative collaboration.· Kidder has a wonderful term to describe the structures that result in creative collaboration.· Each achieved or produced something spectacularly new and each was widely influential, often sparking creative collaboration elsewhere.· In a true creative collaboration, almost everyone emerges with a sense of ownership.· The kind of people who engage in creative collaboration want to do the next thing, not repeat the last one.· This is one of the paradoxes of creative collaboration.
· Last month, the top creative director, Jeremy Clarke, quit after less than five months with the agency.
· Which means you have creative energy.· What could be coming is an explosion of creative energy that could change the way men think about clothes.· Change, the development of something new, unleashes people's creative energy.· Desperate attempts to find wriggle room to justify or excuse bad decisions are a waste of time and creative energy.· The serpent, symbolic of the creative energy, and the rainbow, symbolic of the sustaining principle, are therefore siblings.· This year's explosion of creative energy should come as no surprise.
· It must be possible to encourage creative expression and to correct spelling mistakes.· Jana's work is based on the belief that exploring creative expression is one way of finding and strengthening our inner power.
· How do you utilise your creative flair and imagination?
· Then consider what effect such beliefs might have as powerful, creative forces in your life.
· The creative genius of artist, composer, or writer is a kind of genie.· The days of the creative genius prima donna are over.· There followed a period of about fifteen years when creative genius became evident, such as the works of William Shakespeare.· After all, you are a creative genius and these characters are mere socialites.
· The creative group will usually, as we have seen, consist of a writer and an artist.· In creative groups, failure is regarded as a learning experience, not a pretext for punishment.· The traffic or progress department monitors the advertisement's progress from the creative group to the newspaper or magazine concerned.
· However, if you have creative ideas and good material, face-to-face contact is by no means necessary.· Without their loyalty, their creative ideas, and their hard work the company will not succeed.· In no area is there a greater need for a rich variety of creative ideas.· The striking visual appearance of that black and white outline has sparked off innumerable creative ideas.· New and creative ideas and better ways to do things come not from systems but from people.· This also gives a chance for creative ideas to arise.· Most creative ideas spring from analogy of some kind.
· The creative imagination reconciles inner and outer worlds in metaphorical synthesis.· Those are the right touchstones: breadth of mental outlook and creative imagination.· His piece here demonstrates something insufficiently noted-the way in which his creative imagination informs his acute thought.· A variety of exercises that draw on the student's own experience and creative imagination.
· For good measure, she's famous for her ability to stimulate creative inspiration, too.
· The world is still rich with natural resources that could be reshaped by your creative mind.
· This type of analysis is helpful to agency creative people, but has practical limitations.· As Dave notes, they both work more than half-time and supply the input of two creative people.· The intensity of creative people varies in degree.· Let's, like, build our own company that will look after the interests of creative people like us.· Working closely with other creative people at Black Mountain, artists often experienced accelerated creative growth.· At the start, we introduced ourselves: most were creative people or professionals, aged between 25 and 35.· One of the best things about advertising is the people, creative people that is.
· Better still, never leave Little Puddington at all if you wish to be a wholly fulfilled and creative person.· Can you imagine Pablo Picasso in a very regimented place, a very creative person?· I don't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person.· If you're creative in a songwriting sense, then you are a creative person, period.
· The birth would be the result of the direct intervention of the creative power of the Holy Spirit.· Thus, Nietzsche underlines our creative power in playing with masks, in taking up selves only to put them down again.· You are the enabler, the creative power, the prime mover, the faith is faith in you.· This creative power expresses itself in and through everything.· But Kubla Khan does not merely illustrate this creative power.· But leaders, having achieved self-possession, have long since recovered their creative powers, too, and have continued to grow.· Strengthened by his ability to understand the phenomenon of sound, early man became conscious of the creative power inherent in it.· It is one and indivisible, unlimited in understanding and creative power.
· Epic poetry, like sculpture, is an Apolline art, and all such art involves a quite different creative process.· And secondly, that the creative process is not that of the confessional.· Does it not merely subtract from what is already there, and shouldn't a truly creative process add something too?· It is the creative process that gives each its special character.· To say the least, this is a curb on the creative process, and artistically destructive.· A multi-dimensional approach has the potential to discover and support creative processes in the local community.· For a woman, releasing the creative process in herself is in fact a passive state.· Vertical integration of media conglomerates adds pressure to the marketplace and the creative process.
· But for publishing, these characteristics take second place to the creative side.· But the magazine finally has given her a way to combine her creative side with her business side.· This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control.· I had nothing to do with the recording and creative side but I changed guitar strings and that kind of thing.· Don't think for a moment that the women are all on the creative side of the business.· The right-hand side of your brain is the creative side.
· Yet the world we live in cries out for more critical and creative solutions to many, pressing problems.· Look for the more creative solution - the tried and true don't always bring the best results.· Subsequently the highly rated manager develops creative solutions and provides new insights into problems.· What matters is that the creative solution has a credible and realistic basis.
· Voice over It's an inspiration for their creative talents.· But a visit to a local physician for a routine checkup sparked a new focus for her creative talents.· Agencies are always hungry for creative talent.· Meanwhile, the London-based ad firm was scrambling to rejuvenate the account, bringing in creative talent from their Southern California office.· Due to the low pay offered the likelihood was that anyone with creative talent would be attracted to a better-paid job elsewhere.
· Just how does cooperation between a planner and the creative team work?· It also makes use of most of the same creative team, including much of the 20-member cast.· Let's take an example of the planner and creative team together.· Finally the creative team should be told where the advertising should appear and how much money there is to spend.· His disciplinarian approach was seen to be at odds with West Ham's tradition as a freewheeling and creative team.· When the creative team has produced an idea or ideas, these are often put to suitable groups to get their reactions.· The creative team Generally speaking they are the ones who do not wear suits - or look rather uncomfortable when they do.
· A brainstorming session is devoted to creative thought.· Through the centuries, millions of people have used caffeine to help spark creative thought.· Business courses place an importance on creative thought because it is new ideas which keep a business ahead of its competition.· The ability to use fantasy and imagination underlies much of creative thought.· More advanced is creative thought which also has many of the attributes of purposive thought.· In the essay on craftsmanship it becomes a strategy for creative thought.· An unnatural element is introduced between the writer and the free flow of creative thought.· It is also a cliche that computers are incapable of creative thought - in other words, imagination.
· Retirement in poverty may offer little scope for creative use of leisure.· Two examples are given here to illustrate how socially useful design could make a fuller and more creative use of new technologies.· To date, however, little thought has been given to balancing love and work through creative use of communications media.· The creative use of existing clubs and leisure facilities could go much of the way to addressing this concern.· His work is known for its theatrical style and creative use of shadows.· These attempts have drawn very little on mainstream psychological theory, but they have made extensive and creative use of psychoanalysis.
· There must be many other ways of capitalizing in a creative way on the restrictions of being housebound.· You have to find creative ways of providing the illusion of space in a price tag that more people can afford.· Pupils are given the opportunity to use technology in a creative way and enhance the quality of their own learning.· Spending money in more creative ways.· If we think about it in a creative way the blossoms will come.· Looking for a creative way to make a meal out of leftover scraps of ham, turkey or pork roast?· The creative way of handling tensions is to be prepared to forgive right from the beginning.· For the past few years, many guides also have found creative ways to take tours to the monuments after dark.
· Some people can struggle by themselves to understand and learn new and more creative ways of living.· You have to find creative ways of providing the illusion of space in a price tag that more people can afford.· Even if camping is still a complete turn-off for her there are plenty of creative ways to enjoy the outdoors without camping.· Spending money in more creative ways.· Devising and working on projects is one of the most creative ways of managing people for profit.· For the past few years, many guides also have found creative ways to take tours to the monuments after dark.· They are looking for creative ways of dealing with the litigation explosion.· Modern couples are, however, finding many creative ways of working out their lives.
· Probably creative work was all the real satisfaction he obtained in those stressful years.· To make more out of it may require a tremendous amount of creative work within the individual disciplines.· Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work!· The agency originated no new creative work for the brands.· Once over anything never seems to be enough for creative work.· He liked producing plays because he enjoyed creative work, and he was good as a leader and director.· Unlike novels and other creative works, factual compilations like phone books and directories tend to be cut and dry.
· Most successful creative writers take this for granted.· At first you resent it, but then you get used to it, and it is good for being a creative writer.
· That is the nature of creative writing to me.· And she has tried to defuse the threat which science undoubtedly can pose against creative writing.· In prisons which offer art or creative writing classes, inmates will pour out their frustrated feelings in painting or poetry.· He's easily distracted from anything that isn't creative writing, though, very up-and-down.· This is not just about the creation in a religious sense but Coleridge's own creative writing.· The exciting and liberating redirection achieved during the sixties, usually characterised as the creative writing movement, has lost its way.· Posters and displays, demonstrations and exhibitions, craft activities, and opportunities for creative writing should all be encouraged.
WORD FAMILYnouncreationcreativitycreatorcreativenessverbcreaterecreateadjectivecreative ≠ uncreativeadverbcreatively
1involving the use of imagination to produce new ideas or things: This job is so boring. I wish I could do something more creative. I teach creative writing at Trinity College. the creative process of writing a poem Diaghilev did his great creative work in France. a creative solution to the problem2someone who is creative is very good at using their imagination to make things: You’re so creative! I could never make my own clothes.—creatively adverb—creativeness noun [uncountable]