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Creative vs Seminal - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between creative and seminal

is that creative is tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these while seminal is of or relating to seed or semen.

As nouns the difference between creative and seminal

is that creative is a person directly involved in a creative marketing process while seminal is a seed.

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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    seminal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to seed or semen.
  • Creative or having the power to originate.
  • Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
  • * Hare
  • The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
    "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.
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  • Synonyms

    * (relating to seed) germinal * (creative) innovative, primary * (highly influential) innovative, formative

    Derived terms

    * seminality * seminally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A seed.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • the seminals of spiders and scorpions

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