Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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creative

/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms creatives

  1. 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”
  2. adjective (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative. “a creative new solution to an old problem”
  3. adjective (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic. “a creative set”
  4. adjective (ironic) Designed or executed to deceive or mislead. “creative accounting and bookkeeping”
  5. adjective (euphemistic, of art) bad, unartistic, busy.
  6. noun (countable) A person directly involved in a creative process; a creator of creative content. “He is a visionary creative.”
  7. noun (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.”

Synonyms

pregnant originative inventive original Promethean

Antonyms

imitative annihilative uncreative

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “creative”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “creative” (best matches first).