innovate

[ in-uh-veyt ]
/ ˈɪn əˌveɪt /
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verb (used without object), in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing.

to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.

verb (used with object), in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing.

to introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time: to innovate a computer operating system.
Archaic. to alter.

Origin of innovate

1540–50; < Latin innovātus past participle of innovāre to renew, alter, equivalent to in- in-2 + novātus ( novā(re) to renew, verbal derivative of novus new + -tus past participle suffix)

OTHER WORDS FROM innovate

in·no·va·tor, noun in·no·va·to·ry, adjective un·in·no·vat·ing, adjective

Words nearby innovate

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Words related to innovatory

adroit, artistic, avant-garde, constructive, creative, fertile, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspired, original, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming, causative, demiurgic

Example sentences from the Web for innovatory

  • But I might as well have aspired to sing them up in heaven, so utterly would they have been spurned as innovatory.

    Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 |Elizabeth Sheppard

  • For we have assumed satiety in desire to have been a powerful factor in the innovatory struggle we have witnessed.

    Social Origins and Primal Law |Andrew Lang

British Dictionary definitions for innovatory

innovate
/ (ˈɪnəˌveɪt) /

verb

to invent or begin to apply (methods, ideas, etc)

Derived forms of innovate

innovative or innovatory, adjective innovator, noun

Word Origin for innovate

C16: from Latin innovāre to renew, from in- ² + novāre to make new, from novus new