creative

noun

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

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

adjective

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

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

Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.

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

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

Roots

creocre- · Latin · create, make

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