Creative
[kriː'eɪtɪv] or [krɪ'etɪv]
Definition
(adj.) promoting construction or creation; 'creative work' .
(adj.) having the ability or power to create; 'a creative imagination' .
Typed by Billie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.
Checker: Mitchell
Examples
- Wiley is another case of the creative mind harassed by the routineers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To be man was as nothing compared to the possibilities of the creative mystery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Was there left now nothing but to break off from the happy creative being, was the time up? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Her delicate organization and creative imagination rendered her peculiarly susceptible of pleasurable emotion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They need to be expurgated by an unceasing criticism; yet in bulk the forces I have mentioned, and many others less important, carry with them the creative powers of our times. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He realised now that this is a long process--thousands of years it takes, after the death of the creative spirit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She saw, with the creative eye of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- From being a temple religion of the old type, the Jewish religion becomes, to a large extent, a prophetic and creative religion of a new type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He thought they were the first rude efforts of creative power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In creative moments men always draw upon some secret spring of certainty, some fundamental well into which no disturbing glimmers penetrate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For a moment I could yield to the creative power of the imagination, and for a moment was soothed by the sublime fictions it presented to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Centuries of oppression have crushed the creative faculty out of her. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was an excellent example of the creative results that come from centering a political problem on human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Now that they were swept away it became apparent how unprepared men were for the creative opportunities this clearance gave them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Maura