What does creative mean?
Word: Creative
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Creative means good at thinking of new ideas and making new things, or showing such ideas.
Synonyms: imaginative, inventive, artistic
Antonyms: dull
How do you spell creative?
Syllables: cre - a - tive
Tricky part: Create loses its final e before the ending is added, so students who write createive have kept one letter too many.
Watch out for: createive, criative, creeative
Memory tip: Creative people create: write create, rub out its last e, and then add the ending.
Creative in a sentence
Example 1: Tara made a creative birthday card from old newspaper.
Example 2: Our art teacher sets a creative task every Friday.
Example 3: Cooking becomes creative when you try new mixes of spices.
Fun Fact
Create comes from the Latin creare, to make, which also gave us creature, a thing that has been made.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
creative
a) inspired
b) clever
c) unimaginative
d) original
Show answer
c) unimaginative. Original, clever and inspired work shows new thinking; unimaginative work has no new ideas in it.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Ethan wrote a creativ ending for the class play.
a) class
b) creativ
c) wrote
d) ending
Show answer
b) creativ. English words almost never end in a bare v, so an e follows it, as in active and brave.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) beautyful
b) imaginery
c) colourfull
d) creative
Show answer
d) creative. Imaginary, beautiful and colourful are all wrongly written here; creative is the one to tick.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the most creative use of an empty bottle?
a) returning it to the shop
b) turning it into a bird feeder
c) filling it with water for school
d) putting it in the recycling bin
Show answer
b) turning it into a bird feeder
2. A creative writer is someone who
a) checks stories for mistakes
b) prints and sells books
c) makes up new stories
d) reads stories aloud on radio
Show answer
c) makes up new stories
