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innovative, a.|ˈɪnəʊveɪtɪv|
[f. as innovate + -ive.]
Having the character or quality of innovating. (In quot. 1608, revolutionary.) spec. in Comm. in sense of innovation 5.
1608Day Hum. out of Br. v. ii. (1860) 68 We ha yet performd but the least part of duetie, Your reinstalment: it rests, that with our bloud We keepe out innouatiue [printed innouasiue] violence. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 239 Persons..addicted to innovative politics. 1807― in Monthly Rev. LXXXIII. 91 An affected, innovative, technical strange nomenclature. 1873F. Hall Mod. English 27 Some writers are, as to manner and diction, conservative, while others are innovative. 1970N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon i. 20 The Air Force..sounded more exciting and more innovative. 1971Sci. Amer. Mar. 14 His division is now involved with..innovative building processes and systems. 1971Times 6 Sept. 12 (Advt.), Well-known American company is introducing an innovative line of electro-optical measurement systems into the European Machine Tool and Metal Working industries. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 72/2 In order to release scarce manpower for the later phases of the innovative process, including marketing.
Hence ˈinnovatively adv., in an innovative manner; involving innovation; ˈinnovativeness.
1962E. M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations vii. 195 The innovativeness continuum may be divided into adopter categories. Ibid. x. 285 The present chapter is an attempt to demonstrate two means of predicting innovativeness. 1971Bull. Amer. Assoc. Univ. Professors Sept. 337 My other two innovatively run courses..are seemingly as successful as courses could be. 1973Black World Mar. 23 The conventions of folk music might be employed in the traditional manner..or innovatively, as is Miss Brooks' ‘The Sermon on the Warpland’. |