different between audacious vs creative

English

Etymology

From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from aude? (“I am bold, I dare”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ô-d??sh?s IPA^(key): /???de???s/
• (US) enPR: ô-d??sh?s IPA^(key): /??de???s/
• Rhymes: -e???s

Adjective

audacious (comparative more audacious, superlative most audacious)

1. Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
2. Impudent, insolent.

Synonyms

• (willing to take bold risks): bold, daring, temeritous, temerarious

Antonyms

• (willing to take bold risks): shy, cautious, prudent

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Further reading

• audacious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• audacious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• audacious at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i?e?t?v/
• Rhymes: -e?t?v

Adjective

creative (comparative more creative, superlative most creative)

1. Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.

2. (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.

3. (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.

4. Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.

   creative accounting

Synonyms

• inventive
• original

Antonyms

• imitative (tend to model an extant thing)
• annihilative (tend to make extinct)

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Noun

creative (countable and uncountable, plural creatives)

2. (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.

3. (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.

Translations

References

• creative at OneLook Dictionary Search
• creative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "creative" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 82.
• creative in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• reactive

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ive

Adjective

creative

1. feminine plural of creativo

Anagrams

• createvi
• recatevi