create

Meanings

Verb

make or cause to be or to become
- "create a furor"
bring into existence
- "The company was created 25 years ago"
- "He created a new movement in painting"
pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity
invest with a new title, office, or rank
- "Create one a peer"
create by artistic means
- "create a poem"
- "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"
- "Picasso created Cubism"
create or manufacture a man-made product
To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
To make a fuss, complain; to shout.

Adj

Created, resulting from creation.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English createn, from Latin creātus, the perfect passive participle of creō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). In this sense, mostly displaced Old English wyrċan (whence Modern English work) and ġesċieppan (whence Modern English shape).

Synonyms

bring forth, cause, contrive, create, engender, form, forthbring, generate, gin up, innate, invent, make, produce, spawn

Antonyms

annihilate, destroy, extinguish, imitate

Scrabble Score: 8

create is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
create is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
create is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

create is a valid Words With Friends word