TRAILBLAZING Synonyms

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

• radically new or original

• in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style

• the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• ahead of the times

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn

• relating to or having the nature of a revolution

• advocating or engaged in revolution

• a radical supporter of political or social revolution

• markedly new or introducing radical change

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area