| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, breaking new ground, contemporary, cutting-edge, deviceful, ingenious, innovational, innovatory, inventive, just out, leading-edge, new, newfangled, original, originative, state-of-the-art |
| Antonyms: | customary, habitual, old, traditional, uncreative, unimaginative |
| Main Entry: | novel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, original |
| Synonyms: | at cutting edge, atypical, avant-garde, breaking new ground, contemporary, different, far cry, fresh, funky*, innovative, just out, modernistic, neoteric, new-fashioned, newfangled, now*, odd, offbeat, peculiar, rare, recent, singular, strange, uncommon, unfamiliar, unique, unusual |
| Antonyms: | common, customary, familiar, old, ordinary, overused, used, usual, worn |
| 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: | singular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unique, odd |
| Synonyms: | atypical, avant-garde, bizarre, breaking new ground, conspicuous, cool*, curious, eccentric, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary, loner, noteworthy, original, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outstanding, peculiar, prodigious, puzzling, queer, rare, remarkable, special, strange, uncommon, unimaginable, unordinary, unparalleled, unprecedented, unthinkable, unusual, unwonted, weird |
| Antonyms: | normal, ordinary, regular, usual |
| Main Entry: | innovatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inventive |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, creative, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |