innovate
verb/ˈɪnəveɪt/
Etymology
First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin innovātus, perfect passive participle of innovō (“to renew”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
- borrowed from innovātus
Definitions
To alter, to change into something new
To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
- But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
- From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
To introduce something new to a particular environment
To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
- Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
To introduce (something) as new.
- to innovate a word or an act
- The Russian defense industrial base (DIB) continues to innovate military equipment and weapons for Russian forces to use in Ukraine.
The neighborhood
- synonymboldly go where no man has gone before
- synonymbreak new ground
- synonyminnovate
- synonymnovelize
- synonympioneer
- antonymimitate
- neighborinnovation
- neighborinnovative
- neighborinnovator
- neighborinnovatory
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA