pathbreaking
English
Alternative forms
- path-breaking
Etymology
path + breaking
Adjective
pathbreaking (not comparable)
- Opening a new path or approach
- a pathbreaking article
- 1986, Clark Kerr & Marian L. Gade, The Many Lives of Academic Presidents, page 69:
- To be a pathbreaking leader takes a certain type of personality.
Synonyms
- groundbreaking
- revolutionary
Derived terms
- pathbreakingly