Creative vs. Original — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Creative and Original
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Creative
Relating to or involving the use of the imagination or original ideas to create something
Change unleashes people's creative energy
Creative writing
Original
Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest
The plasterwork is probably original
The original owner of the house
Creative
A person whose job involves creative work
The most important people in the mix will be creatives and direct marketing specialists
Original
Created personally by a particular artist, writer, musician, etc.; not a copy
Original Rembrandts
Creative
Having the ability or power to create
Human beings are creative animals.
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Original
Not dependent on other people's ideas; inventive or novel
A subtle and original thinker
Creative
Productive; creating.
Original
The earliest form of something, from which copies may be made
One set of originals and four photocopies
The portrait may be a copy of the original
Creative
Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative
Creative writing.
Original
An eccentric or unusual person
He was one of the true originals
Creative
One who displays productive originality
The creatives in the advertising department.
Original
Preceding all others in time; first
Who played the original Dracula?.
Creative
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
Original
Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual
An original play, not an adaptation.
Creative
(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
A creative new solution to an old problem
Original
Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new
A truly original approach.
Creative
(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
A creative set
Original
Productive of new things or new ideas; inventive
An original mind.
Creative
Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
Creative accounting
Original
Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.
Creative
(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
He is a visionary creative.
Original
A first form or model from which others are made or developed
Later versions of the car retained key features of the original.
Creative
(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
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.
Original
An authentic work of art
Bought an original, not a print.
Creative
Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.
The creative force exists in the germ.
Original
A work that has been composed firsthand or used to make a copy, reproduction, or translation
Kept the original but sent a photocopy to his publisher.
Creative
Having the ability or power to create;
A creative imagination
Original
A person with a creative or unusual personality.
Creative
Promoting construction or creation;
Creative work
Original
A person who is appealingly odd or curious; a character.
Creative
Having the power to bring into being
Original
(Archaic) The source from which something arises; an originator.
Original
(not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
The original state of mankind;
The original laws of a country;
The original inventor of a process
Original
(not comparable) First in a series of copies or versions.
The original manuscript contained spelling errors which were fixed in later versions.
This recording is by the original broadway cast.
Original
(not comparable) Newly created.
Tonight we will hear an original work by one of our best composers.
Original
(comparable) Fresh, different.
The paper contains a number of original ideas about color perception.
Original
(not comparable) Pioneering.
Parker was one of the original bebop players.
Original
(not comparable) Having a specified place or time as its origin.
This kind of barbecue is original to North Carolina.
Original
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
This manuscript is the original.
Original
A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
Original
(archaic) An eccentric person.
Original
A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
Original
A ridgeling.
Original
Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
His form had yet not lostAll her original brightness.
Original
Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
Original
Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
Original
Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
Original
Origin; commencement; source.
It hath it original from much grief.
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,Their great Original proclaim.
Original
That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
The Scriptures may be now read in their own original.
Original
An original thinker or writer; an originator.
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.
Original
A person of marked eccentricity.
Original
The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
Original
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
Original
An original model on which something is patterned
Original
Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed;
The original inhabitants of the Americas
The book still has its original binding
Restored the house to its original condition
The original performance of the opera
The original cast
Retracted his original statement
Original
(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary;
His work is based on only original, not secondary, sources
Original
Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of;
A truly original approach
With original music
An original mind
Original
Not derived or copied or translated from something else;
The play is original; not an adaptation
He kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox
The translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French
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