Synonyms for innovator

Grammar : Noun

Spell : in-uh-veyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn əˌveɪt

Définition of innovator

Origin : 1590s, from Late Latin innovator, agent noun from innovare (see innovate).

noun inventor

Example sentences :

As a scene-painter, De Loutherbourg was decidedly an innovator and reformer.
Extract from : « Art in England » by Dutton Cook

Robespierre pleaded the innovator's case on appeal, and won it.
Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley

He was an innovator, and his audacity at once conquered and repelled.
Extract from : « A History of French Literature » by Edward Dowden

Every artist is in some measure an innovator; for his own age he is a romanticist.
Extract from : « The Gate of Appreciation » by Carleton Noyes

If he does any thing out of the common course, he is an innovator.
Extract from : « Diary in America, Series One » by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

For every man, except the politician, the innovator, Austria is no harsh stepmother.
Extract from : « Rienzi » by Edward Bulwer Lytton

It won't do to have you on the Council, Brent, you're too much of an innovator.
Extract from : « In the Mayor's Parlour » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

But Gustavus, like all great commanders, was an innovator in the art of war.
Extract from : « The Thirty Years' War » by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Hence, in their opinion, he was little else than an innovator and an enthusiast.
Extract from : « History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 » by Henry Thomas Buckle

Then a thousand stories were circulated against the innovator.
Extract from : « Sir Charles Napier » by Sir William Francis Butler

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