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innovationary

innovationary adjective: tending to promote innovation.

Adjective

innovationary (comparative more innovationary, superlative most innovationary)

  1. Tending to promote innovation.
    • But the extent to which the transmission of a broader, relational expression of childbirth can be diffused, depends on the relation between the innovationary forces within the existing hospital structure.1980, Social Biology and Human Affairs - Volumes 45-47
    • The potential of the third innovationary period to stimulate growth was greatest in the 1960s, when the growth rate of the world economy exceeded 5 per cent.1982, Hisao Kanamori, Nihon Keizai Kenkyū Sentā, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, The Path for revitalizing world economy

Examples of innovationary in a sentence

  • Trustification was considered so innovationary that it was deemed the main support, besides electrification, for the upswing of the second Kondratieff beginning in 1896.1991, John Cunningham Wood, Joseph A. Schumpeter: Critical Assessments, →ISBN, page 291:
  • Today marks the beginning of a wonderful innovationary experiment in education, a whole new instructional dynamic in teaching paleontology.2011, Roberg Silverberg, The Ultimate Dinosaur, →ISBN:

Forms of innovationary

comparativemore innovationary
superlativemost innovationary

Origin of innovationary

From innovation + -ary.

Questions about innovationary

What does innovationary mean?
Innovationary means tending to promote innovation.
How do you use innovationary in a sentence?
Trustification was considered so innovationary that it was deemed the main support, besides electrification, for the upswing of the second Kondratieff beginning in 1896.
What part of speech is innovationary?
Innovationary is an adjective.

Words near innovationary in the dictionary

  1. innovating
  2. innovatingly
  3. innovation
  4. innovational
  5. innovationalism
  6. innovationary
  7. innovationism
  8. innovationist
  9. innovationists
  10. innovations
  11. innovative

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