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creative | colourful |

As adjectives the difference between creative and colourful

is that creative is while colourful is .

creative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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
  • (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
    • a creative new solution to an old problem
  • (set theory)
    • a creative set

    Derived terms

    * creative accounting * creative differences * creative writing

    Related terms

    * creationism * creationist * creatively * creativeness * creativity

    Synonyms

    * inventive * original

    Antonyms

    * imitative (tend to model an extant thing ) * annihilative (tend to make extinct )

    Noun

  • (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
    • He is a visionary creative .
  • (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
    • Have you finished the creative for next week's email campaign?
    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.

    Anagrams

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    colourful

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • * 1895 , The Annual of the British School at Athens
    • It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 9 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes}}
  • * 1895 , H. Walter Staner and Henry Sturmey, The Autocar
    • One of the most colourful' people in motor racing, he writes in a '''colourful manner .
  • * 2002 , news.bbc.co.uk
    • Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.