GROUNDBREAKING Synonyms

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

• radically new or original

• in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root

• especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule

• a person who has radical ideas or opinions

• (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity

• a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm

• markedly new or introducing radical change

• arising from or going to the root or source

• of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn

• relating to or having the nature of a revolution

• advocating or engaged in revolution

• a radical supporter of political or social revolution

• markedly new or introducing radical change

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• To create (blaze) a new trail that others can then follow

• Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project