| Main Entry: | innovative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
Synonyms: |
avant-garde, breaking new ground, contemporary, cutting-edge, deviceful, ingenious, innovational, innovatory, inventive, just out, leading-edge, new, newfangled, original, originative, state-of-the-art |
Antonyms: |
customary, habitual, old, traditional, uncreative, unimaginative |
| Main Entry: | avant-garde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional, forward-looking |
Synonyms: |
beat*, experimental, head*, hip*, innovative, lead, leading-edge, liberal, new, new wave, pioneering, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art, vanguard |
Antonyms: |
conservative, conventional |
| Main Entry: | creative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artistic, imaginative |
Synonyms: |
clever, cool*, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, leading-edge, original, originative, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out |
Antonyms: |
uncreative, ungifted, unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, untalented |
| Main Entry: | futuristic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ahead of one's time |
Synonyms: |
advanced, cutting edge, innovative, modern, pioneering, revolutionary, visionary |
| Main Entry: | groundbreaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering |
Synonyms: |
avant-garde, cutting-edge, innovating, innovative, leading-edge, radical, revolutionary, spearheading, trailblazing, trendsetting |
| Main Entry: | ingenious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever; brilliant |
Synonyms: |
able, adroit, artistic, bright, canny, crafty, creative, cunning, deviceful, dexterous, gifted, imaginative, innovational, innovative, innovatory, intelligent, inventive, original, ready, resourceful, shrewd, skillful, sly, subtle |
| Notes: | ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid' or 'naïve' |
Antonyms: |
awkward, dumb, ignorant, incompetent, inept, stupid |
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
Synonyms: |
adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |
Antonyms: |
stolen, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal |
| Main Entry: | novel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, original |
Synonyms: |
at cutting edge, atypical, avant-garde, breaking new ground, contemporary, different, far cry, fresh, funky*, innovative, just out, modernistic, neoteric, new-fashioned, newfangled, now*, odd, offbeat, peculiar, rare, recent, singular, strange, uncommon, unfamiliar, unique, unusual |
Antonyms: |
common, customary, familiar, old, ordinary, overused, used, usual, worn |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
Synonyms: |
avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual |
Antonyms: |
borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | revolutionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, progressive |
Synonyms: |
advanced, advancing, avant-garde*, contemporary, cutting edge*, developing, forward-looking, innovative, just out, latest, left, modern, novel, open-minded, radical, state-of-the-art*, up-and-coming |