innovator
/ˈɪnəˌveɪtəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An early adopter.
Example Sentences
- "Described by the judging panel as a "Swiss army knife of the 21st century", Apache Hadoop picked up the innovator of the year award for having the potential to change the face of media innovations."
- "Competition gets thinner still when it comes to the 00s: Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom do one thing very well, Gaga and MIA are aggregators not innovators. Björk is peerless."
- "We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”."