noncreative

Examples

• All

• Through the use of knowledge-based engineering tools and intelligent software agents, all noncreative tasks are automated.

  Academic text (2005)

• His research focuses on the nature of concepts, including how they are acquired, structured, combined, and used in creative and noncreative endeavors.

  Academic text (2006)

• Sometimes seemingly noncreative students are simply overwhelmed by the vastness of the choices in improvisation, but they become more successful when a few guidelines are imposed.

  Academic text (1991)

• Her writing style was criticized for being dull and noncreative, lacking any unique flair.

• Many of the suggestions at the meeting were noncreative, offering little more than standard procedures.

Synonyms

S

sterile

vsnoncreative

23 6.2

Not showing new ideas or creative thinking

means lacking new ideas without implying low productivity or dull results

U

unimaginative

vsnoncreative

9 4.2

Does not show creativity or new ideas

is used more generally for lack of fresh ideas rather than vivid thought

U

uncreative

vsnoncreative

2 4.3

Not having new ideas or ways of doing things

is written with a different negative prefix rather than meaning change

U

uninventive

vsnoncreative

1 5.8

Not showing new ideas or imagination

refers to general absence of new ideas not only practical failure

U

uninvented

vsnoncreative

8.2

Showing no original ideas or creativity

focuses on missing new ideas rather than on whether something exists

Antonyms

C

creative

772 3.3

Showing imagination to make art or new ideas

I

imaginative

60 3.7

Having many new and different ideas

How Creative

innovative

165 5.5

creative

772 3.3

noncreative

1 5.1

conventional

175 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology