Picture making something that was not there before — not copying a template, but growing a new thing in your head and then bringing it out. The word hides create inside it, so the point is always newness: it can describe the thing made (a creative solution) or the person making it (a creative person).
Two branches
事情、作品、做法本身有新意
這一族把「新」放在做出來的東西上：這份工作、這個解法、這件作品裡有想像力的成分。
creative, imaginative · adjective · B2
Using imagination to make new ideas or new things. Used about a job, a subject, a piece of work, or a way of doing or solving something that comes from someone's own imagination.
有創意的；創造性的
人有這種本事
同樣是「做出新的東西」，只是這裡讚的是那個做得出來的人，而不是他做出來的那一件。
creative (person) · adjective · B1
Used about a person who is very good at using their imagination to make things, such as stories, pictures, music, clothes or food.
有創造力的；很有創意的
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
creativelyadv/kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/
In a creative manner.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。