| Main Entry: | creative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artistic, imaginative |
Synonyms: |
clever, cool*, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, leading-edge, original, originative, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out |
Antonyms: |
uncreative, ungifted, unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, untalented |
| Main Entry: | aesthetic/esthetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful or artful |
Synonyms: |
artistic, creative, gorgeous, inventive |
Antonyms: |
displeasing, ugly |
| Main Entry: | artistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, satisfying to senses |
Synonyms: |
aesthetic, creative, cultivated, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, pictorial, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, rhythmical, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful |
Antonyms: |
distasteful, horrible, inelegant, ugly |
| Main Entry: | ingenious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever; brilliant |
Synonyms: |
able, adroit, artistic, bright, canny, crafty, creative, cunning, deviceful, dexterous, gifted, imaginative, innovational, innovative, innovatory, intelligent, inventive, original, ready, resourceful, shrewd, skillful, sly, subtle |
| Notes: | ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid' or 'naïve' |
Antonyms: |
awkward, dumb, ignorant, incompetent, inept, stupid |
| Main Entry: | intellectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
Synonyms: |
bookish, brainy, cerebral, creative, highbrow, highbrowed, intellective, intelligent, inventive, learned, mental, phrenic, psychological, rational, scholarly, studious, subjective, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
foolish, ignorant, simple, stupid |
| Main Entry: | intelligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
Synonyms: |
able, acute, alert, alive, all there, apt, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, calculating, capable, clever, comprehending, creative, deep*, discerning, enlightened, exceptional, highbrow, imaginative, ingenious, instructed, inventive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, original, penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, profound, quick, quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, resourceful, responsible, sage, sharp, smart, thinking, together*, understanding, well-informed, whiz*, wise, witty |
Antonyms: |
foolish, idiotic, imbecile, stupid, unintelligent |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
Synonyms: |
avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual |
Antonyms: |
borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | pregnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant, meaningful |
Synonyms: |
charged, cogent, consequential, creative, eloquent, expressive, fecund, imaginative, important, inventive, loaded, momentous, original, pointed, redolent, rich, seminal, sententious, suggestive, telling, weighty |
Antonyms: |
insignificant, trivial, unmeaningful |
| Main Entry: | prolific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, productive |
Synonyms: |
abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious, creative, fecund, fertile, generating, generative, luxuriant, profuse, proliferant, rank, reproducing, reproductive, rich, spawning, swarming, teeming, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | resourceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginative |
Synonyms: |
able, active, adventurous, aggressive, bright, capable, clever, creative, enterprising, ingenious, intelligent, inventive, original, quick-witted, sharp, talented, venturesome |
Antonyms: |
dull, uncreative, unimaginative, unresourceful |