innovative
innovative — adjective
1. describing something that makes use of fresh thinking or new techniques to produ
describing something that makes use of fresh thinking or new techniques to produce results that are noticeably different from what existed before — for example, a phone with a camera design that changes how people take pictures, or a class activity that teaches grammar through a board game.
Jin's company received an award for its innovative water-purification device.
attributive: innovative + noun (water-purification device)
The chef Eleni created an innovative dessert using ingredients from local farms.
Arjun found an innovative way to recycle old tires into playground surfaces.
When the hospital redesigned its emergency room, the new layout was considered highly innovative.
Lakan's innovative teaching method helps students remember vocabulary through storytelling.
- groundbreaking
stronger and more dramatic than 'innovative'; implies a major advance that changes an entire field
- creative
focuses on imagination and artistic originality rather than practical improvement
- original
stresses being the very first of its kind, but does not guarantee usefulness or improvement
- progressive
emphasizes forward-thinking social or political change rather than technical or design novelty
- traditional
follows long-established methods instead of trying new ones
- conventional
sticks to what is ordinary or expected
文法句型
innovative + noun
be + innovative
find/consider + something + innovative
用法筆記
Used both before a noun (attributive) and after linking verbs like 'be', 'seem', or 'consider' (predicative). Intensifying adverbs such as 'highly', 'truly', and 'genuinely' commonly appear before this word — 'highly innovative' is far more frequent than 'very innovative' in formal writing.