Tom's innovative.
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Innovative
//ˈɪn.əˌveɪtɪv//
Synonyms for "innovative" (41 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Adjective(7 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (12)
Adjective(7 words)
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (20)
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3 entriesRelated terms
13 entriesderived
5 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- اِبْتِكارِيّ adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- مُبْتَكَر adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Belarusian
1 entries- інавацы́йны adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Bulgarian
1 entries- новаторски adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Catalan
2 entries- innovador adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- innovador adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
Czech
1 entries- inovativní adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Danish
2 entries- nyskabende adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- opfindsom adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Dutch
1 entries- innovatief adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Finnish
2 entries- innovatiivinen adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- kaukonäköinen adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
French
2 entries- innovant adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- novateur adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Galician
2 entries- innovador adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- innovador adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
German
2 entries- innovativ adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- innovativ adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
Greek
3 entries- καινοτόμος adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- νεωτεριστικός adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- προηγμένος adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
Hebrew
1 entries- חדשני adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Hindi
1 entries- नाविन्य adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Hungarian
2 entries- innovatív adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- innovatív adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
Italian
1 entries- innovativo adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Japanese
2 entries- 革新的な adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- 革新的な adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
Kazakh
1 entries- жаңашылдық adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Khmer
1 entries- ច្នៃប្រឌិតថ្មី adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Māori
1 entries- auaha adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Norwegian
1 entries- banebrytende adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- innovativ adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- nyskapende adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- banebrytande adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- innovativ adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- nyskapande adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Occitan
1 entries- innovador adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Polish
1 entries- innowacyjny adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Portuguese
2 entries- inovador adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- inovativo adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Romanian
1 entries- inovator adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Russian
2 entries- инновацио́нный adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- передово́й adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ȉnovatīvan adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- ȉnovatīvan adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
- иновативан adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- иновативан adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
Spanish
4 entries- innovador adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- innovativo adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- novedoso adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- pionero adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Swedish
4 entries- innovativ adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- innovativ adj (forward looking; ahead of current thinking)
- nyskapande adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
- påhittig adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Ukrainian
1 entries- інноваці́йний adj (characterized by the creation of new ideas or things)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom is innovative.
Source: tatoeba (2236740)
I'll have to be innovative.
Source: tatoeba (2544275)
Do you have an innovative idea?
Source: tatoeba (2849351)
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