Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Characterized by or introducing new methods, ideas, or products: Describes something that involves or results in significant change and novelty, breaking from established practices or traditions.
   • Pertaining to innovation: Relating to the act or process of introducing something new, original, and creative.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The company's innovational approach to renewable energy has set a new industry standard.
  • Her research is truly innovational, challenging decades-old assumptions in the field.
  • We need an innovational strategy to solve this complex problem.

Advanced Usage

• "Innovational thinking": A mindset or cognitive process focused on generating novel and effective solutions.
  • The workshop aims to foster innovational thinking among the engineering team.
• "Innovational capacity": The ability of an individual, organization, or system to produce innovations.
  • The university invests heavily in labs to boost its innovational capacity.

Variants and Related Words

• Innovate (verb): To introduce something new; to make changes in something established.
  • The team continues to innovate in the field of digital design.
• Innovation (noun): The act or process of innovating; a new method, idea, or product.
  • This product represents a major innovation in home automation.
• Innovative (adjective): Featuring new methods; advanced and original. (Note: 'Innovative' is a very close synonym, often used interchangeably with 'innovational', though 'innovational' can sometimes place more emphasis on the process or capacity for innovation.)
  • They are known for their innovative marketing campaigns.

Synonyms

• Groundbreaking: Pioneering; introducing new ideas or methods.
• Revolutionary: Constituting or causing a complete or dramatic change.
• Trailblazing: Introducing new ideas or methods; pioneering.

Antonyms

• Conventional: Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.
• Traditional: Existing in or as part of a tradition; long-established.
• Imitative: Copying or following a model or example, rather than being original.

Related Phrases

• "At the forefront of innovational development": Leading the way in creating new things.
  • The institute is at the forefront of innovational development in biotechnology.
• "A culture of innovational excellence": An environment that consistently produces high-quality innovations.
  • The CEO wants to build a culture of innovational excellence.

Adjective

1. being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before
   • stylistically innovative works
   • innovative members of the artistic community
   • a mind so innovational, so original