pathbreaking

Opening a new path or approach

Adjective

  1. Opening a new path or approach
    • a pathbreaking article
    • To be a pathbreaking leader takes a certain type of personality. - 1986, Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, The Many Lives of Academic Presidents, page 69:

Origin

From path + breaking.

Forms

path-breaking

Synonyms

groundbreaking revolutionary

Derived

pathbreakingly

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