innovative
adjective
tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
innovatory
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a variation of
innovative.
Example Sentences
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His successor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, has taken that to heart with the kind of innovatory spirit that he had brought to the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025
But this was transparently driven by commercial rather than imaginative or innovatory forces.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
It's cheaper and less risky to convince customers that something is ground-breaking, even when it isn't, than develop something truly innovatory.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012
One of the big innovatory breakthroughs of early-20th century art resulted from three or four irreverent individuals cutting out fragments of photographic scraps and sticking them together in outlandish combinations.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
And his genius, that innovatory force of his, that infinite adaptability, that inexhaustible scenic faculty which he possessed, that intuition into the necessity of change, was, after all, a genius of thin and threadbare quality.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
