Erudite vs Creative - What's the difference?
erudite | creative |
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
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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.
As adjectives the difference between erudite and creative
is that erudite is while creative is .erudite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
Synonyms
* See alsocreative
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.