innovation

The word “innovation” has 4 syllables: in-no-va-tion

It's pronounced as /ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for innovation?

In the thesaurus, “innovation” has 43 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for innovation along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for innovation

  • addition
  • alteration
  • brainchild
  • coinage
  • conception
  • concoction
  • contraption
  • contrivance
  • creation
  • cutting edge
  • departure
  • design
  • deviation
  • device
  • dream
  • fantasy
  • gadget
  • gismo
  • gizmo
  • imagining
  • introduction
  • invention
  • last word
  • latest thing
  • leading edge
  • modernism
  • modernization
  • modification
  • mutation
  • newness
  • notion
  • novelty
  • origination
  • permutation
  • phantasy
  • picture
  • product
  • shift
  • variation
  • vicissitude
  • vision
  • work
  • wrinkle

Antonyms for innovation

Meanings of innovation

  • noun
    1. The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
    2. A change effected by innovating; a change in customs.
    3. Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
    4. A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

Example Sentences

  • The company's success is built on its commitment to innovation.
  • Technological innovation has transformed the way we communicate.
  • The new product is a brilliant example of innovation in design.
  • She received an award for her groundbreaking innovation in renewable energy.
  • Continuous innovation is essential for staying ahead in the market.

On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to innovation, such as: addition, alteration, brainchild, carbon copy, clone, coinage, conception.

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Related Words

gadgets

  • accessaries
  • accessories
  • accompaniments
  • accouterments
  • adjuncts
  • apparatus
  • appliances
  • appurtenances
  • articles
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  • baggage
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  • contraptions
  • contrivances
  • devices
  • dinguses
  • doodads
  • doohickeys
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  • equipage
  • facilities
  • fittings
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  • gimmicks
  • gismos
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  • habiliments
  • hickeys
  • hootenannies
  • impedimenta
  • implements
  • ingenuities
  • innovations
  • instruments
  • inventions
  • jiggers
  • kit and kaboodle
  • machinery
  • material
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  • miscellaneous
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  • rig
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  • shebang
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  • thingamabobs
  • thingamajigs
  • things
  • thingumajigs
  • thingummies
  • tools
  • trappings
  • traps
  • tricks
  • utensils
  • widgets

imaginative

  • Promethean
  • adroit
  • adventurous
  • artful
  • artistic
  • avant-garde
  • blue-sky
  • brain wave
  • brainy
  • clever
  • cleverish
  • complex
  • convenient
  • creative
  • deft
  • dexterous
  • dextrous
  • dreamy
  • enterprising
  • expert
  • extravagant
  • fanciful
  • fantastic
  • fecund
  • fertile
  • fictive
  • fresh
  • fruitful
  • gadgety
  • generative
  • germinal
  • gifted
  • gimmicky
  • groundbreaking
  • handsome
  • handy
  • high-flown
  • ingenious
  • innovational
  • innovative
  • innovatory
  • inspired
  • intelligent
  • inventive
  • neat
  • nifty
  • novel
  • offbeat
  • original
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  • pie-in-the-sky
  • poetic
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  • practical
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  • quixotic
  • resourceful
  • romantic
  • sharp
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  • tricky
  • useful
  • utopian
  • visionary
  • vivid
  • way-out
  • whimsical

quantum leap

  • abrupt change
  • advance
  • advancement
  • amelioration
  • betterment
  • boost
  • breakthrough
  • civilization
  • development
  • discovery
  • edification
  • education
  • elaboration
  • enhancement
  • enlightenment
  • evolution
  • expansion
  • find
  • gestation
  • giant strides
  • growth
  • heightening
  • increase
  • innovation
  • inspiration
  • invention
  • jump
  • leaps and bounds
  • maturation
  • melioration
  • perfection
  • quantum jump
  • radical change
  • refinement
  • renaissance
  • renascence
  • revival
  • ripening
  • strengthening
  • transilience
  • upgrade
  • uplift
  • upswing
  • uptrend
  • upturn
  • windfall

gadget

  • accessary
  • accessory
  • adjunct
  • apparatus
  • appliance
  • business
  • concern
  • contraption
  • contrivance
  • dingus
  • doodad
  • doohickey
  • gimmick
  • gismo
  • gizmo
  • hickey
  • hootenanny
  • implement
  • ingenuity
  • innovation
  • instrument
  • invention
  • jigger
  • mechanism
  • object
  • thing
  • thingamabob
  • thingamajig
  • thingumajig
  • thingummy
  • tool
  • trick
  • utensil
  • whatchamacallit
  • widget

unconventionality

  • aberration
  • abnormality
  • anomaly
  • apostasy
  • bizarreness
  • bohemianism
  • boldness
  • breach
  • brilliance
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • characteristic
  • cleverness
  • contumaciousness
  • conversation piece
  • creative spirit
  • creativity
  • curiosity
  • daring
  • defection
  • denial
  • deviance
  • deviation
  • disaffection
  • disagreement
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • discord
  • discordance
  • disobedience
  • dissension
  • dissent
  • dissention
  • dissidence
  • eccentricity
  • error
  • esotericism
  • esoterism
  • exception
  • exoticism
  • extraordinariness
  • fallacy
  • falsehood
  • fantasticality
  • foible
  • foreignness
  • freak
  • freakishness
  • freshness
  • heresy
  • hereticism
  • heterodoxy
  • iconoclasm
  • idiocrasy
  • idiosyncrasy
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • incongruity
  • indescribability
  • individuality
  • infidelity
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • innovation
  • innovativeness
  • insubordination
  • invention
  • inventiveness
  • irregularity
  • kink
  • lawlessness
  • misbelief
  • misconception
  • modernity
  • mutinousness
  • myth
  • negation
  • new idea
  • newness
  • nonacceptance
  • nonagreement
  • noncompliance
  • nonconformity
  • nonconsent
  • novelty
  • objection
  • oddity
  • oddness
  • opposition
  • originality
  • outlandishness
  • peculiarity
  • phenomenon
  • queerness
  • quirk
  • quirkiness
  • rarity
  • recalcitrance
  • recusance
  • recusancy
  • rejection
  • resourcefulness
  • schism
  • scission
  • sectarianism
  • separatism
  • singularity
  • spirit
  • strangeness
  • transgressiveness
  • uniqueness
  • unnaturalness
  • unorthodoxness
  • unorthodoxy
  • unruliness
  • veto
  • violation
  • waywardness
  • weirdness
  • whimsicality
  • whimsicalness

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