"creativize" meaning in English

See creativize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /kɹiˈeɪtɪvaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /kɹiˈeɪtəvaɪz/ [General-American], /-ɾə-/ [General-American] Forms: creativizes [present, singular, third-person], creativizing [participle, present], creativized [participle, past], creativized [past]
Etymology: From creative + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|creative|ize}} creative + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} creativize (third-person singular simple present creativizes, present participle creativizing, simple past and past participle creativized)
  1. (transitive) To make or render more creative, to add creativity to (something); to creatify. Tags: transitive Synonyms: creativise, creatify Related terms: creative, creatively, creativeness, creativity

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "creative",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "creative + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From creative + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "creativizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "creativizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "creativized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "creativized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "creativize (third-person singular simple present creativizes, present participle creativizing, simple past and past participle creativized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cre‧at‧iv‧ize"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, Seba Eldridge, New Social Horizons: Designs for a Personality-centered Culture:",
          "text": "One will be to creativize its own activities, giving due weight, along with competing considerations, to the values of creative work for its operatives, fostering vigorous lay participation together with the accruing amateur activity, and thus establish in its field a collaborative economy embracing all categories of interests.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jeff Degraff, Innovation You:",
          "text": "For every element of her treatment, she added new, creative ingredients and methods. She “creativized.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, L Vaughan Spencer, Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy:",
          "text": "Put this in your Buzzness Bath after a long day at work and creativise on BUZZNESS issues.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or render more creative, to add creativity to (something); to creatify."
      ],
      "id": "en-creativize-en-verb-RUVIF3Sb",
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "render",
          "render"
        ],
        [
          "creative",
          "creative"
        ],
        [
          "creativity",
          "creativity"
        ],
        [
          "creatify",
          "creatify"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make or render more creative, to add creativity to (something); to creatify."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "creative"
        },
        {
          "word": "creatively"
        },
        {
          "word": "creativeness"
        },
        {
          "word": "creativity"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "creativise"
        },
        {
          "word": "creatify"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹiˈeɪtɪvaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹiˈeɪtəvaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɾə-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "creativize"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "creative",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "creative + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From creative + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "creativizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "creativizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "creativized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "creativized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "creativize (third-person singular simple present creativizes, present participle creativizing, simple past and past participle creativized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cre‧at‧iv‧ize"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "creative"
    },
    {
      "word": "creatively"
    },
    {
      "word": "creativeness"
    },
    {
      "word": "creativity"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ize",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, Seba Eldridge, New Social Horizons: Designs for a Personality-centered Culture:",
          "text": "One will be to creativize its own activities, giving due weight, along with competing considerations, to the values of creative work for its operatives, fostering vigorous lay participation together with the accruing amateur activity, and thus establish in its field a collaborative economy embracing all categories of interests.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jeff Degraff, Innovation You:",
          "text": "For every element of her treatment, she added new, creative ingredients and methods. She “creativized.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, L Vaughan Spencer, Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy:",
          "text": "Put this in your Buzzness Bath after a long day at work and creativise on BUZZNESS issues.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or render more creative, to add creativity to (something); to creatify."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "render",
          "render"
        ],
        [
          "creative",
          "creative"
        ],
        [
          "creativity",
          "creativity"
        ],
        [
          "creatify",
          "creatify"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make or render more creative, to add creativity to (something); to creatify."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹiˈeɪtɪvaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹiˈeɪtəvaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɾə-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "creativise"
    },
    {
      "word": "creatify"
    }
  ],
  "word": "creativize"
}

Download raw JSONL data for creativize meaning in English (2.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.