单词 | innovative |
释义 | innovativeadj. Having the character or quality of innovating. (In quot. 1608, revolutionary.) spec. in Commerce in sense of innovation n. 5. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1608 |
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