creative thinking
- noun
- /kriˈeɪtɪv ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
- In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that using computers in kindergarten impacts children's creative thinking skills.
- creative thinking ability
- creative thinking skills
- creative thinking process
This is the source of all creative thinking.
- This is the source of all creative thinking.
- Where are you when you are experiencing creative thinking?
- These are all different types of what we might call like creative thinking.
- But whether you're using math or not to compose a piece of music, it's still takes some investment of creative thinking.
- I've heard Elon Musk talk about sleep is so critical for innovation, creative thinking, leading your team, being strategic.
- They begin to probe one's capacity for combining disparate concepts, which goes to the very heart of the creative process of creative thinking.
Examples
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Both focus on solving problems and require creative thinking, communication, and collaboration.
Academic text (2013) -
Students use critical and creative thinking and problem-solving to develop high-level products.
Academic text (2015) -
That clearly shows some some creative thinking and some significant capacity to get things done.
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What if we focused on critical and creative thinking in the assessment process?
Academic text (2011) -
In the final analysis, we are limited only by our own creative thinking as teachers.
Academic text (1991) -
Their strategic plans all made sense, but there was little creative thinking.
Fiction book (2002) -
Composition is not the only end product of the creative thinking process.
Academic text (1991) -
Students develop critical and creative thinking skills within inquiry-based models.
Academic text (2015) -
In this study, a program based on computer use examined its effect on children's creative thinking.
Academic text (2011) -
To innovate successfully, companies must prioritize creative thinking in their development teams.
Synonyms
The ability to form new pictures and ideas in your mind that are not real
The ability to use imagination to make new ideas or things
Clever new thinking that finds solutions to problems and makes useful things
A quality of being new and different in ideas and not copied from others
To think of new plans or solutions for a problem
The ability to think of new ideas and ways to do things
Ability to think of new ideas and make new things
Thinking of new ideas and using new ways to do things
A way to solve problems by looking at them from new angles
To solve problems using new creative ideas
A way to find new, creative ideas to solve problems
A way to find new ideas that ignores practical limits
Ability to think of new and creative ideas
Being very clever at finding new ways to solve problems and make things
A way of thinking that comes up with many different ideas to solve a problem
Antonyms
How Creative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'creative' (able to invent or imagine new things) + 'thinking' (deliberate use of the mind); it denotes thinking that is imaginative or idea-generating. This adjective+noun pattern is standard and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Creative thinking paints a simple picture: creative means making new things and thinking means using your mind to join ideas, like a builder putting parts together in his head. So it means 'using imagination and new ideas to create something or solve problems'.