Synonyms of pioneering

pioneering 1 of 2

adjective

as in revolutionary

Related 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

Dissimilar Words

• 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)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pioneering

Adjective

Valerie Vargas founded the pioneering group in 2002, back when San Antonio’s all-female mariachi scene was still small. — Zoey Goto, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026

An adaptation of the Marvel comic books, X-Men was a pioneering film and helped launch a new age of superhero cinema. — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026

Dolores Huerta, the pioneering labor activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union and spent decades fighting for better working conditions for America's agricultural workers, has died. — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Dolores Huerta, the pioneering labor organizer and civil rights activist who grew up in California’s Central Valley, has died. — Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Still, for this pioneering and hopeful group the relationship has already supported an expanding slate. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2026

Hastings oversaw the creation of a pioneering technology that could offer helpful recommendations to users on what to watch next. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

Auchincloss compares it to the pioneering clinical trial model that the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation built in the 1990s to study the disease. — Gerry Smith, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

As with their neighbors to the south, residents of Canada’s western prairie and mountain provinces take pride in a pioneering spirit and rugged independence that have enabled them to prosper in often harsh terrain. — The Monitor's Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2026

Verb

Under the pioneering spirit of art director Luca Nichetto, a global roster of names are refreshing this ages-old company’s profile, among them Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Decline tends to set in when willful stasis coincides with the rise of a rival more committed to pioneering. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

Moderated by Billboard’s Ingrid Fajardo, the Colombian hitmaker and pioneering Puerto Rican duo broke down some of their biggest respective hits. — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2026

Perhaps pioneering new media strategies and must-see additional programming are still on the way, but for now, Bilton’s notebook of ideas has yet to yield appreciable results. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2026

John Mayer, Michael Jordan, and Sam Altman are rightly known as pioneering, if not rule-breaking, leaders in their respective fields—who also happen to be three notable collectors of the startup Swiss watchmaker Vanguart. — Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2026

His larger insight was that pioneering technological networks reconfigure how distance, mobility and military power relate to one another. — Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

Fifty years ago, scientists pioneering a terrifying gene-splicing technology figured out a way to collectively hit pause. — Nick Fountain, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026

The diaries provide great details on what life was like in those pioneering days. — Kevin Strong, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026