[cre.a.tive] adj (1678) 1: marked by the ability or power to create: given to creating "the ~ impulse"
2: having the quality of something created rather than imitated: imaginative "the ~ arts"
3: managed so as to get around legal or conventional limits "~ financing"; also: deceptively arranged so as to conceal or defraud "~ accounting" -- cre.a.tive.ly adv -- cre.a.tive.ness n