Creative vs Rational - What's the difference?
creative | rational |
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
(set theory)
(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
Capable of reasoning.
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Logically sound; not contradictory or otherwise absurd.
(label) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
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, title= Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
(label) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
(mathematics) A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
A rational being.
As adjectives the difference between creative and rational
is that creative is while rational is capable of reasoning.As a noun rational is
(mathematics) a rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.creative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
- a creative new solution to an old problem
- a creative set
Derived terms
* creative accounting * creative differences * creative writingSynonyms
* inventive * originalAntonyms
* imitative (tend to model an extant thing ) * annihilative (tend to make extinct )Noun
- He is a visionary creative .
- 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
* ----rational
English
Alternative forms
* rationall (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rationel, rational, from (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- ¾ is a rational number, but ?2 is an irrational number.
Antonyms
* (reasonable) absurd, irrational, nonsensical * (capable of reasoning) arational, irrational, non-rational * (number theory) irrationalEtymology 2
From (etyl) rational, from , for which see the first etymology.Noun
(en noun)- The quotient of two rationals''' is again a '''rational .
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