groundbreaking

3 definitions • 5 examples

If something is groundbreaking, it is very new and a big change from other things of its type:

His latest movie is interesting, but not groundbreaking.

original and important; showing a new way of doing or thinking about things:

This groundbreaking work changed the way historians looked at slavery.

new and likely to have an effect on how things are done in the future:

a groundbreaking discovery

groundbreaking work/research/studies

a groundbreaking agreement/deal