Inventive vs. Creative: What's the Difference?
Inventive and Creative Definitions
Inventive
Adept or skillful at inventing; creative.
Creative
Having the ability or power to create
Human beings are creative animals.
Inventive
Of, relating to, or characterized by invention.
Creative
Productive; creating.
Inventive
Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
An inventive pursuit
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Creative
Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative
Creative writing.
Inventive
Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
An inventive fellow
Creative
One who displays productive originality
The creatives in the advertising department.
Inventive
Purposefully fictive
An inventive story
Creative
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
A creative dramatist who avoids cliche
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Inventive
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.
Creative
(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
A creative new solution to an old problem
Inventive
(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action;
An imaginative use of material
The invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman
An ingenious device
Had an inventive turn of mind
Inventive ceramics
Creative
(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
A creative set
Creative
Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
Creative accounting
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Creative
(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
He is a visionary creative.
Creative
(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.
Creative
Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.
The creative force exists in the germ.
Creative
Having the ability or power to create;
A creative imagination
Creative
Promoting construction or creation;
Creative work
Creative
Having the power to bring into being
