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CREATIVE PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creative person mean? 

CREATIVE PERSON (noun)
  The noun CREATIVE PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imaginationplay

  Familiarity information: CREATIVE PERSON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CREATIVE PERSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

artist; creative person

Hypernyms ("creative person" is a kind of...):

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creative person"):

classic (an artist who has created classic works)

Indiana; Robert Indiana (United States pop artist (born 1928))

symbolist (a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols)

surrealist (an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism)

stylist (an artist who is a master of a particular style)

carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)

romantic; romanticist (an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism)

pyrographer (an artist who practices pyrography)

graphic artist; printmaker (an artist who designs and makes prints)

Pre-Raphaelite (a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals)

lensman; photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)

painter (an artist who paints)

modernist (an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles)

illustrator (an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.))

classicist (an artistic person who adheres to classicism)

constructivist (an artist of the school of constructivism)

decorator; ornamentalist (someone who decorates)

draftsman; drawer (an artist skilled at drawing)

etcher (someone who etches)

expressionist (an artist who is an adherent of expressionism)

maestro; master (an artist of consummate skill)

minimalist (a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism)

musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)

Instance hyponyms:

Arp; Hans Arp; Jean Arp (Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966))

Audubon; John James Audubon (United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851))

Duchamp; Marcel Duchamp (French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968))

Al Hirschfeld; Hirschfeld (United States artist noted for his line-drawn caricatures (1904-2003))

Jasper Johns; Johns (United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930))

Edward Lear; Lear (British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888))

Louis Comfort Tiffany; Tiffany (United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933))


 Context examples 


If you are a creative person and are paid for your ideas or artistry or you support creative people as an agent or publicist (as two examples), March 20, plus or minus one day, will be the day you’ll come up with wildly imaginative, original ideas.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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