Keyword: «neoborrowings»

The adjectives "creativnyj" and "tvorcheskij" are often considered synonyms, interchangeable in any context. Using the Normative Explanatory Dictionary of Russian as the State Language and the tools of the Russian National Corpus, the article explicates the functional differences between the two adjectives, which are mainly due to the relatively recent borrowing from English into Russian of the adjective "creativnyj" widespread in the 21st-century Russian.