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creative

1 adjective
     
cre‧a‧tive1 S3 W3
1 involving 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 problem
2A someone who is creative is very good at using their imagination to make things [↪ inventive]:
You're so creative! I could never make my own clothes.
—creatively adverb
—creativeness noun [uncountable]
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