The engineer's creative solution to the bridge's structural problem used interlocking arches that had never been tried before.
工程师对桥梁结构问题的创造性解决方案采用了前所未有的互锁拱形结构。
Translator and novelist Iris Chen argues that translation is itself a creative act that can add new dimensions of meaning to a text, rather than simply subtracting from an original that can never truly be reproduced anyway.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
While workplace productivity is often assumed to decline sharply after a certain number of consecutive work hours, several studies have found that the specific type of task being performed—routine versus creative—predicts the timing of that decline far more strongly than total hours worked alone.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
A longitudinal study tracking over two thousand adults found that regularly engaging in unstructured creative hobbies, such as painting or woodworking, predicted greater reported stress resilience in middle age more strongly than income level during the same period did.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “creative”?
B — Having the ability to make new things or think of new ideas. “creative” means having the ability to make new things or think of new ideas.
Which word means “having the ability to make new things or think of new ideas”?
D — creative. “creative” means having the ability to make new things or think of new ideas.
creative — having the ability to make new things or think of new ideas. In Chinese: 有创造力的.
creative is pronounced /kriˈeɪtɪv/.
The engineer's creative solution to the bridge's structural problem used interlocking arches that had never been tried before. (工程师对桥梁结构问题的创造性解决方案采用了前所未有的互锁拱形结构。)
inventive, imaginative, original — all close in meaning to creative (having the ability to make new things or think of new ideas).
unimaginative, conventional — each the opposite of creative (having the ability to make new things or think of new ideas).
Yes. creative is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.