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Creative vs Innovate - What's the difference?

creative | innovate |

As an adjective creative

is .

As a verb innovate is

(obsolete|transitive) to alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.

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

    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.

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    innovate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
  • * , New York 2001, p.80:
  • But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
  • * South
  • From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
  • To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
  • To introduce (something) as new.
  • to innovate a word or an act

    Derived terms

    * innovative * innovation * innovatory

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