Synonyms of pioneering

pioneering 1 of 2

adjective

as in revolutionary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• revolutionary
• trailblazing
• advanced
• progressive
• state-of-the-art
• alternative
• cutting-edge
• nontraditional
• unconventional
• underground
• avant-garde
• antiestablishment
• avant
• bizarre
• new
• original
• novel
• modern
• unprecedented
• outré
• way-out
• far-out
• unfamiliar
• unheard-of
• contemporary
• fresh
• unknown
• newfangled
• strange
• current
• modernistic
• present-day
• ultramodern
• unaccustomed
• up-to-date
• mod
• red-hot
• space-age
• new-fashioned
• hot

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• traditional
• conventional
• established
• customary
• orthodox

pioneering

2 of 2

verb

present participle of pioneer

as in founding

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research

Synonyms & Similar Words

• founding
• establishing
• initiating
• introducing
• launching
• creating
• instituting
• inaugurating
• beginning
• innovating
• planting
• starting
• constructing
• originating
• constituting
• developing
• inventing
• organizing
• devising
• authoring
• manufacturing
• producing
• setting up
• expanding
• thinking (up)
• conceiving
• fathering
• cooking (up)
• funding
• financing
• concocting
• enlarging
• endowing
• subsidizing
• contriving
• arranging
• making up
• fabricating
• systematizing
• relaunching
• reinstituting
• refounding
• systemizing
• reinitiating
• putting up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• shutting (up)
• abolishing
• phasing out
• finishing
• stopping
• ending
• halting
• terminating
• nullifying
• annihilating
• annulling
• winding up
• wrapping up
• rounding (off or out)