groundbreaking

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

recently appeared, arrived, or developed
newI bought a new suit for my interview.
brand newThe company unveiled a brand new product this week.
novelThat's a novel way of approaching the problem.
novelThe bank has introduced a novel way of detecting fraud.
innovativeThe project uses innovative ideas for recycling.

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

imaginative
imaginativeShe is often brilliantly imaginative in filling out the details of the writer's life.
creativeThe designer is either a creative genius or completely bonkers.
inventiveThe company was known for hiring inventive people who could dream up new products.
innovativeShe was an innovative, entrepreneurial thinker.
visionaryAn organization doesn't grow if you don't have a visionary leader to take you into the future.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

New
afresh
be ahead of the curveidiom
box-fresh
brand new
ink
innovatively
latest
latter-day
newness
next-gen
next-generation
novel
original
the avant-garde
the ink is not dry/still wetidiom
unhackneyed
unheard-of
unprecedented
up-to-the-minuteidiom
youth

innovative | American Dictionary

innovative
adjective
us/ˈɪn·əˌveɪ·t̬ɪv/
(of ideas and methods) new and different:
Gwen introduced a number of innovative solutions.

innovative | Business English

innovative
adjective
uk /ˈɪnəvətɪv/ us /ˈɪnəveɪtɪv/(UK alsoinnovatory)
using new ideas or methods:
In recent years, the company has relied more on creative repackaging than on innovative design.
innovative ideas/products/programmesBig companies are always looking for innovative products that can't be easily copied.
an innovative approach/practice/strategy
The group aims to reduce the risks and increase the chances of innovatory, technology-based start-ups making it in the big commercial world.

innovatively

adverb
to think innovatively

Examples of innovative

innovative
Our main interest was to assess whether participants would produce innovative expressions rather than relying on an existing linguistic formula.
We called for the development of authoring systems that allow the implementation of innovative test tasks specifically for language tests.
Encouragement will be given to innovative projects and thinking that seek to address emerging labour market issues.
One innovative part of this model that relates to this research involves how learning is often enabled by the conflicts between coalitions.
Evidently new and innovative procedures were timely - here was a sizable industrial undertaking (the cleanup) with very little previous experience to build on.
Some examples of how tumour-associated gene alterations might be used to develop novel innovative diagnostics and therapeutics are mentioned here.
Part two of the book is as ambitious as part one is innovative.
Imitation has tended to be dismissed as a rather low-grade activity having, almost by definition, no innovative content, but this is wrong.
The innovative variants are used by the younger non-professional speakers, especially females, who use more of the open schwa-like pronunciations.
Both are femaledominated patterns, with women leading in the move toward innovative variants.
Is the experientially unfamiliar a major innovative contribution to theatre?
They see this reformulation as a historical possibility already underway in innovative grassroots movements and experiments.
Radically innovative forms do exist, but these are exactly the opposite of progressive rock in that old, well-established technology is used in new ways.
In changes from below, women tend to use higher proportions of innovative forms (actuation) (2001:293).
This promises to be an exciting and innovative conference, which integrates sessions for postgraduate students, within and alongside the conference proper.
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