| 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: | 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: | innovative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
Synonyms: |
avant-garde, breaking new ground, contemporary, cutting-edge, deviceful, ingenious, innovational, innovatory, inventive, just out, leading-edge, new, newfangled, original, originative, state-of-the-art |
Antonyms: |
customary, habitual, old, traditional, uncreative, unimaginative |
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
Synonyms: |
adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |
Antonyms: |
stolen, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal |
| Main Entry: | innovatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inventive |
Synonyms: |
adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, creative, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |