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# creative

«creative» in Mova's school dictionary: **good at having new ideas and making new things, such as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (creative, more creative, most creative); noun (a creative, creatives — at work)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Creative means good at having new ideas and making new things, such as stories, art, music or inventions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#m1)

2) Creative describes work that uses imagination (creative writing). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school, creative writing, art, music and design lessons ask pupils to use their imagination; in maths a creative solution is a new, clever way to solve a problem. In everyday life creative people make, build and invent. Phrases: creative writing, creative ideas, get creative, creative thinking.

### examples

- She is very creative and always drawing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#x1)
- We wrote creative stories about dragons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#x2)
- Let's get creative and make a robot from boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#x3)
- He found a creative way to solve the puzzle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#x4)
- Music lessons help children to be creative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#x5)
- The class came up with creative ideas for the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#x6)
- It was creative of you to turn the box into a castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/#x7)

### note

Comparison: more creative, most creative. Noun: creativity; verb: create. Spelling: cre-a-tive. «Creative accounting» or «creative with the truth» is a joke meaning dishonest.

### In the corpora

- [Words like "kind, clever and creative" fit almost anyone, so they tell you nothing about you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/14/)
- ["Creative spelling" is a joking way to say poor spelling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/13/)
- ["Creative with the truth" is a jokey way to say lying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «creative» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creative/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.