groundbreaking
/ˈɡraʊn(d)breɪkɪŋ
/adjective
Innovative; pioneering: groundbreaking research into fertility problems...
- Some disciplines are pioneering groundbreaking research on ethical behaviour.
- Granted, good history need not always be based on groundbreaking research.
- Professors have been grown to do one thing well and that is groundbreaking research.
Derivatives
groundbreaker
/ noun ...- She's an innovator, a groundbreaker and she's the best in her field.
- They're the groundbreakers and the pathfinders.
- You know, I certainly look to the women who were here before I was here, women who were groundbreakers.