innovative
Other forms: innovatively
Something innovative is new and original. If you love to experiment and find new ways to do things, you are an innovative person.
Innovative, like nova, novel, and novice, comes from the Latin novus, which means new. Something innovative renews or alters the way something has been done. You can use innovative to describe the thing or the person that made it. If your English teacher objects to your experimental writing style, tell him, "I'm an innovative writer making innovative sentences!" Antonyms are unoriginal and hackneyed.
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being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before“stylistically innovative works”“innovative members of the artistic community”synonyms: groundbreaking, innovationaloriginalbeing or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
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ahead of the times“is British industry innovative enough?”synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, modernprogressivefavoring or promoting progress
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Vocabulary lists containing innovative
Looking for some new words? Learn this list of terms based on neo-, a Greek prefix meaning "new," and novare, Latin for "to make new."
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