INNOVATOR Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

innovator

noun

Definition of innovator next

as in inventor

one who creates or introduces something new thank goodness for the innovator who thought up the remote control

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Recent Examples of innovator Wealth + Entrepreneurship Some of America’s greatest innovators have been immigrants—from telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell originally from Scotland to Germany’s Levi Strauss. —

Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 Anthropic is one of the biggest innovators in the trillion-dollar AI industry, having just gone public at a staggering $965 billion valuation, and cemented Claude as one of the most capable assistants on the market. —

Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 10 June 2026 Attracting the world’s leading tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, London Tech Week brings together industry innovators, policymakers, and investors to discuss the latest breakthroughs in the world of tech. —

Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 9 June 2026 Critics and musicians instantly recognized him as an innovator. —

Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026 The country with the second largest portion of companies on the list is France, which is one of the leading renewable energy producers and sustainability innovators in the EU with a €240 million plan unveiled in April to further reduce its fossil fuel reliance. —

Charlotte Hu, Time, 9 June 2026 Taylor returned in 1985, and Dallas guitarist and blues rock innovator Stevie Ray Vaughan also took the stage that year. —

Adam Harrington, CBS News, 9 June 2026 Bertelli spoke about his mother, Miuccia Prada, and his father, Patrizio Bertelli, both innovators in their own right, which has driven the brand’s ethos. —

Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 8 June 2026 Though Lollapalooza, the height of Chicago’s summer festival season, is still weeks away, visions of a different kind of creative collaboration are dancing through the minds of some Chicago innovators this week. —

Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026

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This was a preliminary, phase one clinical trial, so there was still a long way to go to confirm that this approach really could achieve what its inventors hoped—stopping an invader dead in its tracks.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Baker’s playing career alone — 19 years, two All-Star appearances, a Gold Glove, fourth in National League MVP voting in 1980, on-deck for Aaron’s 715th, co-inventor of the high-five with Dodgers teammate Glenn Burke — is the stuff of baseball lore.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026