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avant garde
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional, forward-looking |
| Synonyms: | beat*, experimental, head*, hip*, innovative, lead, leading-edge, liberal, new, new wave, pioneering, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art, vanguard |
| Antonyms: | conservative, conventional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
| Synonyms: | avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual |
| Antonyms: | borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | advanced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ahead in position, time, manner |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, breakthrough, cutting-edge, excellent, exceptional, extreme, first, foremost, forward, higher, late, leading, leading-edge, liberal, precocious, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art*, unconventional |
| Antonyms: | after, behind |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | camp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consciously affecting the unfashionable, weird, or bizarre |
| Synonyms: | Daliesque, affected, arch, artificial, avant-garde, far out, in, mannered, mod, ostentatious, pop, posturing, wild |
| Main Entry: | cutting edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leading position |
| Synonyms: | advance guard, advancement, avant-garde, fore, forefront, front, front line, innovation, invention, leading edge, new wave, newest technology, pioneer, point, spearhead, van, vanguard |
| Main Entry: | dernier cri |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latest fashion |
| Synonyms: | all the rage, avant-garde, craze, fad, hip, in vogue, latest wrinkle, look, mode, new look, the in thing, the last word, the last word, the latest cry, the latest fad, the latest thing, the newest fashion, vogue |
| Main Entry: | far-out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional and offbeat |
| Synonyms: | Bohemian, avant-garde, boss*, contemporary, cool, cool*, deep, deep*, excellent, fabulous, fantastic, groovy, groovy*, hip*, hippie, mod, modern, modernistic, neat, nifty, offbeat, out in left field, out of this world, rad, rad, radical, sensational, strange, super, swell, trendy, ultamodern, unconventional, unorthodox, very unconventional, way-out, weird, wild, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | groundbreaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, cutting-edge, innovating, innovative, leading-edge, radical, revolutionary, spearheading, trailblazing, trendsetting |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, fictive, high-flown, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetic, poetical, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | dull, uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unresourceful |
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