mould-breaking
(US mold-breaking)
adjective
Characterized by bold originality; pioneering: it was a controversial and mould-breaking TV drama...
- He is a man of his time, with mould-breaking ideas for the largest sporting organisation in the country.
- For all the talk of a new mould-breaking, inclusive, post-racial politics, the cultural divide never went away.
- Privatisation, which became one of the most mould-breaking features of her premiership, is barely mentioned.
Derivatives
mould-breaker
- From the first few scenes it's clear to see the film is destined to be a mould-breaker.
- She is still a mould-breaker whose early work remains required reading for most intelligent women.
- The one-time mould-breakers are more content these days with being in the business of staying in business.