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单词 creative
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creative
(kritɪv )
Word forms: creatives
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
Like so many creative people, he was never satisfied.
...her obvious creative talents.
Synonyms: imaginative, gifted, artistic, inventive  
creativity (kreɪtɪvɪti ) uncountable noun B2
American art reached a peak of creativity in the '50s and '60s.
Synonyms: imagination, talent, inspiration, productivity  
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
Creative activities involve the inventing and making of new kinds of things.
...creative writing.
...creative arts.
Cooking is creative.
3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
If you use something in a creative way, you use it in a new way that produces interesting and unusual results.
...his creative use of words.
creatively adverb B2
Genet teaches you to think creatively.
4. countable noun
A creative is someone whose job is to be creative, especially someone who creates advertisements. [mainly journalism]
Along with scores of other advertising creatives, he will be taking part in an exhibition at the Saatchi gallery.
Collocations:
creative design
We are not convinced that with good, creative design and incentives we have fully exhausted the supply of suitable brownfield land.
Times, Sunday Times
Introducing the best of creative design into the fabric and contents would be inspiring.
Times, Sunday Times
Easy to put together, take apart, and re-arrange into new configurations, magnetic toys readily foster creative design and intuitive play.
Smithsonian Mag
We need to respect and invest in creative design thinking and stop trying to make money simply by moving it about.
Times, Sunday Times
If, though, you're in the mood for some serious creative design allied to precious materials then there's nothing for it but a deeper dip into the purse.
Times, Sunday Times
creative director
They clicked: he made her creative director and neither has looked back.
Times, Sunday Times
The windfalls came on top of her salary which was put at 400,000 in 2010 when she was creative director.
Times, Sunday Times
She retains a stake of about 30 per cent and remains the creative director.
Times, Sunday Times
The under-fire creative director, who earns 330,000 a year, took 26,000 for taxis.
The Sun
He worked as a creative director in advertising and juggled writing with his day job until he sold enough books to be able to quit.
The Sun
creative endeavour
It was, literally, an avalanche of creative endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
History will remember us by the creative endeavour of our artists, writers, composers, film-makers and architects.
Times, Sunday Times
Its offices are gratifyingly cluttered — not messy, just buzzy with healthy signs of creative endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
Later on, as this display makes fully clear, it infiltrated every other sphere of creative endeavour — music, posters, teapots, clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
For some wealthy people, the avoidance of their dues has become a creative endeavour in which they invest great intellectual energy, and at which they enjoy great success.
Times, Sunday Times
creative energy
How do they hold down a job and a life and have the creative energy to produce books?
Times, Sunday Times
Although he has some fun with the difficulty of cutting any poem that once occupied all his creative energy, there are no obvious omissions.
Times, Sunday Times
You'll have a surge of creative energy and good judgment, so you know which talents you should concentrate on.
The Sun
You supply the creative energy a shared project needs but be sure to tread carefully round tender feelings.
The Sun
I know that when the weather starts to warm up, my creative energy returns.
Times, Sunday Times
creative enterprise
Judiciously devised homework promotes pupils' autonomy of thought, creative enterprise and capacity for intellectual risk.
Times, Sunday Times
Every sector - galleries, museums, theatres, dance spaces, literature centres, music and festival venues - now knows it forms part of this creative enterprise.
Times, Sunday Times
And now, from outside the cultural mainstream, it continues to pursue creative enterprises for the good of others.
Christianity Today
Of all the creative enterprises, recipes are the only ones you can't copyright or claim ownership to.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite political tensions, the work of creative enterprises continue uninterrupted and cultural life goes on.
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creative expression
So, apart from the emotional side, it encourages creative expression and connection.
Times, Sunday Times
Most current socialization programs incorporate some form of creative expression – music, storytelling, theater and dance – and past studies have demonstrated their effectiveness.
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It was such a creative expression of an artist's life.
Smithsonian
She loftily describes the film as aiming to 'give people a place to voice their own creative expression to fight oppression, intolerance and complacency'.
The Sun
In tough times, it would seem, people seek comfort in culture and creative expression - but they will not waste money on rubbish.
ST
creative force
We are trying to mould a group of 160 people into a unified creative force; voice, brass, percussion, gut string.
Times, Sunday Times
Part restaurant manual, part autobiography, the book captures the creative force and minute control necessary to run two kitchens at opposite ends of the country.
Times,Sunday Times
Short or long defence-splitting passes, coupled with a trademark dummy, marked him out as a creative force.
Times, Sunday Times
The sitcom was the driving creative force of broadcasting for half a century.
Times, Sunday Times
So which comes first, the creative force or the technical innovation?
Times, Sunday Times
creative genius
The honour seems to have been conferred not in recognition of his creative genius, but of a feat of musical memory.
The Times Literary Supplement
A creative genius and influence over us all.
The Sun
I am in awe of him and his creative genius.
The Sun
So consider yourself lucky - think how much this cornucopia of creative genius could earn in the private sector.
Times, Sunday Times
It's probably terribly adventurous and the work of a creative genius.
The Sun
creative idea
It teaches them to analyse risk and markets and identify appropriate ways to market a creative idea.
Times, Sunday Times
One key creative idea stands out - follow this one.
The Sun
The process of implementing a creative idea takes an enormous amount of time, thought, and energy.
Christianity Today
Fun turns to money as you identify ways to maximise the appeal of a creative idea.
The Sun
He never relied on the same creative idea twice.
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creative impulse
He may also have been thinking in terms of the creative impulse: all writers, after all, are divided selves, populated by multifarious characters and voices.
Times, Sunday Times
Could love for a thing also be tied to the creative impulse that gave it life in the first place?
Christianity Today
Basic competency in reading, writing, and speaking may be one thing, but who can measure the critical thought, the creative impulse, or the moral insight?
Christianity Today
Memory has served as a major creative impulse for many contemporary dance productions, but those dealing more directly with historical circumstances are rarer and usually harder to pull off.
Times, Sunday Times
People may perceive the individual's eccentric behavior as the outward expression of their unique intelligence or creative impulse.
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creative innovation
His most creative innovation was to record when each manuscript arrived and include that information when it was published.
Times, Sunday Times
You'll benefit from getting other people involved who are good at creative innovation.
The Sun
There's the hint of a contradiction here: shouldn't those of us who love literature be embracing change, welcoming creative innovation from wherever it may come?
The Times Literary Supplement
Today the public respects and understands more about creative innovation in contemporary art.
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It has been a long, exciting and industrious journey, full of art and intuition, difference in repetition, and creative innovation.
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creative input
Your creative input sets you apart, but don't let it go to your head.
The Sun
Alternatively, you can take part in a pre-organised event, such as a fun run or trek that requires preparation but reduced creative input.
Times, Sunday Times
To flourish at centre, he has to have more creative input and a thinker inside him.
Times, Sunday Times
They want to put their names above musicals but have no creative input.
Times, Sunday Times
I wanted more creative input.
Times, Sunday Times
creative inspiration
Both teams were low on energy and creative inspiration, and it seemed to be drifting towards a replay.
Times, Sunday Times
Their talent, however, has been to turn these worries into creative inspiration.
Times,Sunday Times
The creative inspiration, if you have watched thus far, came from an unexpected quarter.
Times,Sunday Times
Creative inspiration comes as much from your environment, the sounds, smells and feelings of being outside, for example.
Times, Sunday Times
This was no sudden moment of creative inspiration; rather a talent fine-tuned from years of experience.
Times, Sunday Times
creative instinct
An experimental photographer mourns the loss of her creative instinct after an operation.
Times, Sunday Times
Humans have a creative instinct.
Times, Sunday Times
He believed interpretation demands something of the creative instinct.
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Though his creative instincts came more to the fore, the forward was still desperate to open his account for the season.
Times, Sunday Times
She marries an electrician's technical knowhow with her creative instincts, and costs 110 per hour.
Times, Sunday Times
creative licence
We had creative licence to do what we wanted.
The Sun
We are given a lot of creative licence, but a successful event needs both creativity and logistics.
Times, Sunday Times
Responding to scepticism about whether he will be given creative licence in an undemocratic nation, he said that so far he has been 'totally' free.
Times, Sunday Times
Some of the passages have been challenged by the duchess's lawyers, who said they were inaccurate, anodyne or the product of creative licence.
Times,Sunday Times
He said that he had used a degree of creative licence when explaining these apparent inspirations in his monologue sections.
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creative mind
I want to put my creative mind into design.
Times, Sunday Times
Your creative mind, combined with determination, can transform a house into a welcoming home.
The Sun
You also need good attention to detail and a creative mind.
The Sun
He's the first to admit he's an obsessive muso - but he's a very engaging one nonetheless, with a wildly creative mind.
The Sun
The letters give intriguing insights into a brilliantly creative mind.
Times, Sunday Times
creative output
The musicians' physical proximity no doubt helped nurture their creative output and a sense of community.
The Times Literary Supplement
It will cover funding, governance, its news content, its creative output, how much independent production companies do.
Times, Sunday Times
Creative output increased by an average of 60 per cent when the person was walking.
Times, Sunday Times
Two evenings of creative output and correspondence produced during 1914-18.
Times, Sunday Times
The tragic course of his life did not, however, stand in the way of a frenetic creative output.
The Times Literary Supplement
creative partnership
How do you keep your creative partnership fresh and do you ever have artistic differences?
The Sun
Yet after 20 years of creative partnership, they seem as comfortable together as a pair of well-worn, slightly mismatched socks.
Times, Sunday Times
Presumably the pair thought the ups and downs of their romantic and creative partnership sufficiently fascinating to sustain an audience's interest; they were wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
Some might find it odd that a couple with such an intense creative partnership are not romantically linked.
Times, Sunday Times
It was the start of an unlikely creative partnership and loving friendship.
Times,Sunday Times
creative play
We need arts and craft sets, puzzles/books, indoor and outdoor games, creative play sets, stationary and toiletries among others.
The Sun
Now the laws have been reinterpreted to encourage skilful and creative play — so players dive.
Times, Sunday Times
You'll never improve on a cardboard box to encourage creative play.
Times, Sunday Times
Ground facilities include an outdoor creative play space, school oval and multi -purpose sports court.
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Some adult hobbies are examples of such creative play.
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creative possibilities
In fact, for those prepared to embrace new technologies, the creative possibilities of the e-book are exciting.
Times, Sunday Times
Cooking and eating should be about fun and pleasure, and all sorts of creative possibilities can help to bring that about.
Times, Sunday Times
Creative possibilities form a big part of the deal that's on offer and you'll consider extensive changes at home.
The Sun
I know many of my friends are also exploring more creative possibilities when it comes to career searching.
Times,Sunday Times
This degree of freedom has made the creative possibilities of video game music limitless to developers.
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creative potential
The other teams have bigger squads with more creative potential.
The Sun
Your creative potential can't be denied and there's a good chance finding things to do in the home will make you more comfortable.
The Sun
Something you make at home could be a cash generator and will help you fulfil your creative potential.
The Sun
Use your creative potential in any way you can over love issues but be prepared to compromise.
The Sun
The service can never reach its creative potential if a single person has to plan the whole thing.
Christianity Today
creative process
She applied some psychological order to the anything-goes creative process.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
So where does he go to escape the hustle and bustle of the creative process and to recharge his batteries?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They are all completely involved in the creative process.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The writer took some of the mystery out of the creative process for the broker.
Kiam, Victor Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur (1986)
Spending less time on the secondary one will force you down a different creative process and path.
Christianity Today (2000)
creative pursuit
Those passions could also be for a creative pursuit or even a new sport.
Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, you're overcoming fears that once made certain varieties of happiness, romance or creative pursuits seem unattainable.
Times, Sunday Times
It affords extra time for creative pursuits — such as art, drama and music — that often get pushed out of the crammed curriculum.
The Sun
It shows the importance of music as a creative pursuit for the people and communities of this era, and the strength of this should not be underestimated.
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These range from your work and lifestyle to personal passions, romance, offspring or creative pursuits — possibly all at once.
Times, Sunday Times
creative skill
A new creative skill can grow fast, so make sure you seize every opportunity.
The Sun
You have the creative skill, the opportunity and the luck you need to show the world what you can achieve.
The Sun
Meanwhile, they express their every creative skill to leave their final marks, or traces.
Times, Sunday Times
Creative skill, past experience, a sense of what makes good software, and an overall commitment to quality are critical success factors for a competent design.
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The sun and moon work in harmony in your chart, giving your creative skills a boost.
The Sun
creative solution
It's a creative solution to a problem that faces many brands, particularly ones that appeal to a young market.
Times, Sunday Times
They are asking what sort of creative solution might work, which, given how stuck we are, has to be preferable to just sitting around waiting for something to turn up.
Times, Sunday Times
Can they come up with a creative solution to speed things along?
Times, Sunday Times
Success was defined as getting a creative solution that the group was committed to implement.
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The folded plates of the concrete main roof are a creative solution to achieving the larger spans required in the main gathering hall.
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creative spirit
To reveal how the creative spirit transforms the dross of experience into the gold of art.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet, media organisations that employ only bland people, who toe the line and keep their heads down, quickly lose their creative spirit.
Times, Sunday Times
We have a cultural melting pot that brings a lot of openness in terms of creative spirit.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet, true to its creative spirit, after worldwide closure theatre has reacted to fill the vacuum.
Times,Sunday Times
The planning changes proposed by the government are an attempt to unleash the creative spirit of our own age.
Times, Sunday Times
creative talent
Instead of letting creative talent gather dust, you can map out a practical plan to make the most of it.
The Sun
And to manage such people you have to understand creative talent rather than knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Times, Sunday Times
That pen-pushers would casually dismiss the sort of creative talent that attracted millions of viewers tells us something.
Times, Sunday Times
Self-belief gets stronger and work you do at home reveals a creative talent.
The Sun
At work, or with personal ambition, it's time to say yes to a chance to show off creative talent.
The Sun
creative thinker
Both conditions can make you a creative thinker, because you have to find new solutions to problems to get through the day.
Times, Sunday Times
As a creative thinker, you'll often discuss intriguing ideas — but that doesn't mean you intend to go any further.
Times, Sunday Times
He was remembered by colleagues as a 'dynamic, creative thinker' and a skilful delegator who would generate hundreds of ideas for the estate.
Times, Sunday Times
Creative thinkers are metaphorical thinkers and the more unusual the metaphor, the more creative the idea.
ST
Process-driven rule-followers might decide to reinvent themselves as creative thinkers.
Times, Sunday Times
creative thinking
Remember, we are all different and so our creative thinking does not necessarily follow exactly the same pattern as the next person 's.
Crawshaw, Alwyn Crawshaw's Watercolour Studio (1993)
Your brain is quite capable of producing the new ideas that we call creative thinking.
O'Keeffe, John Your One Week Way to Mind-Fitness (1994)
One experiment showed that walking doubled creative thinking.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
That contrast encourages creative thinking, better use of language and improves teamwork and interpersonal skills.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Smart meters hooked up to information systems, the integration of applications and logistical optimisation are all good examples of creative thinking with IT.
Computing (2010)
creative thought
No creative thought could wander that previously scenic vista; instead the turbines acted as anchors, preventing cognitive reasoning.
Times, Sunday Times
The pressure of a vote causes people to take sides and discourages free and creative thought.
Christianity Today
I work in marketing and have more creative thought patterns.
Times, Sunday Times
However, if like most people in this country you are a bit short on rolling acres, then the fallow months require creative thought.
Times, Sunday Times
But who's to say that staring blankly into space isn't part of the creative thought process?
Times, Sunday Times
creative type
Classic example of a creative type not understanding how business works.
Times, Sunday Times
Even if you don't see yourself as the creative type, plans to give your home a stylish makeover work well.
The Sun
It takes a creative type to come up with so many excuses.
Times, Sunday Times
Even if you don't seem the creative type, today you will be - and the best ideas come out of the blue.
The Sun
You may not think of yourself as the creative type but today something you write or photograph could prove you are.
The Sun
creative use
These need unlocking and directing towards creative use.
Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, his creative use of vocabulary led to many phrases and idioms that are still in common use (see panel, right).
Times, Sunday Times
The 22-year-old used two keyboards to combine simple piano lines with voice manipulation, sparse, soulful singing and a creative use of space.
Times, Sunday Times
It can combine innovative and creative use of print and online media.
Times, Sunday Times
In a similar spirit, the film itself makes creative use of limited resources.
Times, Sunday Times
creative vision
It's actually a fulfilment of our creative vision of it.
Times, Sunday Times
Rather, without a creative vision to transform it, shock started to look about as culturally conventional as a palette and brush.
Times, Sunday Times
Always shunning parochial commitments, he obeyed a universalist creative vision generous enough to swallow the whole world - or at least fabricate it.
The Times Literary Supplement
It will sterilise the creative vision, entrepreneurial skills and artistic flair that characterise this country.
Times, Sunday Times
The unrelenting youth of her, plus the wisdom, talent and creative vision beyond her years.
Times, Sunday Times
creative work
They start really wanting to get a qualification, then wanting to finish their creative work and get recognition for their achievement.
Times, Sunday Times
But the vital tension that had energized his greatest creative work had vanished.
Christianity Today
Like other architects, they will do the design stage, but they won't come in later to manage the project if it isn't their creative work.
Times, Sunday Times
Yeah, we'll give you creative work as well.
Times, Sunday Times
I ask if he believes that his most creative work comes out of unhappiness.
Times, Sunday Times
creative workshop
Learn how to make your own books in this creative workshop for families.
Times, Sunday Times
For the project, patient groups were engaged in creative workshops that explored how they viewed their hearts.
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Learn new skills at one of the creative workshops and watch a classic drive-in movie - with popcorn.
Times, Sunday Times
It has, moreover, a cabinet paper, a comprehensive library specializing in art, a creative workshop, a covered, media room, a gallery and a spectacular sculpture garden.
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There will also be plenty of hands-on activities and creative workshops.
Times, Sunday Times
creative writer
His novels and plays may be out of fashion but there's no doubt that he was a creative writer of talent.
Times, Sunday Times
A creative writer should know when to stop.
Times, Sunday Times
Similarities and contrasts between the mentality and mind games of the secret service and those of the creative writer are increasingly brought to the fore.
Times, Sunday Times
But his first calling was as a creative writer, and here he found much less success.
The Times Literary Supplement
He was a gifted and creative writer.
Times,Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 创造性的
Japanese: 創造的な
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