✅ Do-gooder refers to a person who promotes social reform or human and animal welfare, but in a naive and often ineffectual way (She was a do-gooder who jumped from cause to cause).

✅ Humanitarian refers to a person who is actively focused on promoting human welfare and social reform (He was a lifelong humanitarian).

✅ Do-gooder and humanitarian both refer to people who want to make the world a better place. Humanitarian is a positive word, but do-gooder is usually negative and derogatory (The last thing we need is another do-gooder trying to fix things; She left finance and became a humanitarian).

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✅ Creative describes having the ability and inclination to create things, especially based on an original idea (He was a very creative child).

✅ Inventive describes being good at coming up with new ideas, inventions, and solutions, or being good at improvising (She was an inventive cook).

✅ Creative emphasizes imagination, or being talented at various art forms (The costume designers had a lot of creative ideas).

✅ Inventive emphasizes the ability to come up with something totally fresh and new (It was an inventive retelling of Cinderella).

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✅ Open-minded describes someone who has a fair mind and is therefore open to new ideas (an open-minded politician).

✅ Receptive describes someone who responds favorably to new ideas, offers, feedback, and similar (a receptive employer).

✅ Receptive and open-minded both describe someone who is willing to hear new things and expose themself to new ideas.

✅ Receptive often suggests that someone is being given new ideas to consider, whereas open-minded suggests that someone is open to new ideas and concepts in a more general way (He was receptive to my opinions on paint colors; He had an open-minded approach to people).

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