innovativeadj.
/ˈɪnəʊveɪtɪv/ Having the character or quality of innovating. (In quot. 1608, revolutionary.) spec. in Commerce in sense of innovation n. 5.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > innovative or innovated
innovating1591
novelling1621
innovated1635
new-set1714
innovative1806
innovational1817
adventurous1841
innovatory1853
unclichéd1946
cutting edge1975
1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. G4 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.
1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 239 Persons..addicted to innovative politics.
1807 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 83 91 An affected, innovative, technical strange nomenclature.
1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 27 Some writers are, as to manner and diction, conservative, while others are innovative.
1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon i. 20 The Air Force..sounded more exciting and more innovative.
1971 Sci. Amer. Mar. 14 His division is now involved with..innovative building processes and systems.
1971 Times 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.
1972 Lebende Sprachen 17 72/2 In order to release scarce manpower for the later phases of the innovative process, including marketing.
Derivatives
ˈinnovatively adv. in an innovative manner; involving innovation.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adverb] > innovatively
progressively1910
innovatively1971
1971 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Univ. Professors Sept. 337 My other two innovatively run courses..are seemingly as successful as courses could be.
1973 Black 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’.
ˈinnovativeness n.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > innovation or avant-gardism
innovation1553
innovating1591
cutting edge1851
avant-gardism1950
vanguardism1952
innovativeness1962
gee-whizzery1971
1962 E. M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations vii. 195 The innovativeness continuum may be divided into adopter categories.
1962 E. M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations x. 285 The present chapter is an attempt to demonstrate two means of predicting innovativeness.
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