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💡 Innovative or pioneering 🌲 Making a new path
trailblazing

trailblazing

1 5.6
Introducing new ideas or methods that change a field
  • adjective
  • /ˈtreɪlˌbleɪzɪŋ/
translation icon : pionero
  • It's definitely a trailblazing pioneer kind of product because it got every brand making their own skinny brow pencils.
  • trailblazing women
  • trailblazing effort
  • trailblazing career

Just this all around trailblazing businesswoman's I also learned from her, you know, aside from from that element, how to really enjoy life.

Examples

  • The trailblazing women's rights litigator became a moderate judge.

    Academic text (1993)

  • There are countless examples of young trailblazing entrepreneurs who are changing and leading today's world.

    Blog text (5)

  • It could certainly be a trailblazing turn.

    Blog text (31)

  • Just this all around trailblazing businesswoman's I also learned from her, you know, aside from from that element, how to really enjoy life.

    Lex Fridman

  • (Much like some of our beloved trailblazing heroes of today.)

    Blog text (12)

  • Wasvia Nazarene is a trailblazing force of nature.

  • Thus, it was another trailblazing moment as the first woman hired full-time as a Major League broadcaster.

    Blog text (22)

  • This was a trailblazing effort in response to the federal government's attempt to introduce managed competition as the dominant mode of healthcare delivery in the United States.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The first of these productions has gone down in the annals as a trailblazing effort in the establishment of modernity on the Swedish stage, but as reviewed by Soderberg, it was accorded a rather mixed and complex critical response.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Her trailblazing approach to education has inspired many teachers to adopt new teaching methods.

Synonyms

innovative
vstrailblazing
165 5.5

Having new ideas or methods to do things better

stresses being first to introduce methods rather than only being original
groundbreaking
vstrailblazing
57 5.1

New ideas or methods that change how something is done

is about introducing new ideas rather than mainly causing broad shifts
pathbreaking
vstrailblazing
6.3

Causing big change with new important ideas or methods

is about introducing new methods rather than causing wide field change
innovatory
vstrailblazing
7.2

Introducing new ideas or ways of doing things

focuses on being first to introduce ideas rather than only supporting them
pacesetting
vstrailblazing
5.3

Leading others by using new ideas that they copy

emphasizes introducing new methods rather than leading others by example

Antonyms

conservative
∞ 4.6

Does not want big changes and likes traditional values

traditional
994 1.5

Following long-held customs and ways of doing things

How Innovative

revolutionary
103 5.2
trailblazing
1 5.6
innovative
165 5.5
novel
72 5.1

Surface Forms

trailblazing positive

Morphology

trailblazing = trailblaze (transparent) = trail + blaze + ing

Formed from the verb 'trailblaze' (itself trail + blaze) with the productive suffix -ing; the adjectival meaning 'pioneering' is a clear figurative extension.

Etymology

Trailblazing comes from the words trail ('path') and blaze ('mark' or 'bright fire'), because people once made a bright mark to show a new path. So a trailblazing person is someone who opens up new ideas or ways and leads others.