Innovator

Quick meaning: Innovator is a noun meaning Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.

Meaning

Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.

More Meanings

1. (marketing) An early adopter.

Example Sentences

Competition gets thinner still when it comes to the 00s: Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom do one thing very well, Gaga and MIA are aggregators not innovators. Björk is peerless.

Described by the judging panel as a "Swiss army knife of the 21st century", Apache Hadoop picked up the innovator of the year award for having the potential to change the face of media innovations.

We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.

Word Forms

• innovators
• innovatour

Synonyms for innovator

Depending on context, synonyms include pioneer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pioneer, innovative, innovation, groundbreaking, creative, inventor.

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