innovative
IN-uh-vay-tivadjMeaning bringing in new ideas or ways of doing things
Memory hook IN-NOV: bring IN the NEW. Nell bakes cookies no one has ever tasted, pepper-honey and lemon-basil, and hangs a sign saying NEW FLAVORS; she is innovative.
The school’s innovative garden program teaches math through planting.
In context Rather than copy the other bakeries, Nell was innovative, inventing flavors no one had ever tried, like lemon-basil scones and pepper-honey cookies.
Similar inventive, creative, original, groundbreaking
Opposite conventional, traditional, unoriginal
From Latin innovare, “to renew, to make new”: in- (into) + novare (to make new), from novus (new).