creative

/krē-ˈā-tiv/

borrowed from Medieval Latin creātīvus, from Latin creātus, past participle of creāre "to beget, give birth to, " + -īvus -ive

adjective

  1. marked by the ability or power to create : given to creating

  2. having the quality of something created rather than imitated : imaginative

  3. managed so as to get around legal or conventional limits; also : deceptively arranged so as to conceal or defraud

the creative impulse

noun

  1. one who is creative; especially : one involved in the creation of advertisements

  2. creative activity or the material produced by it especially in advertising

noun

  1. evolution that is a creative product of a vital force rather than a spontaneous process explicable in terms of scientific laws