innovatively

IPA/ˈɪn.ə.və.tɪv.li/
IPA/ˈɪn.ə.veɪ.t̬ɪv.li/

innovatively — adverb

1. using fresh ideas, designs, or methods instead of more usual ones

1.adverbC1
Definition

using fresh ideas, designs, or methods instead of more usual ones

Example

Roya redesigned the tiny kitchen innovatively with sliding shelves and fold-down tables.

verb + innovatively for a new practical design method

The village school innovatively turned old buses into bright mobile classrooms.

innovatively + turned into for a creative solution

Common collocations
  • innovatively designed
  • innovatively built
  • innovatively marketed
  • innovatively solve
Synonyms
  • creatively

    stresses imagination in general, not necessarily a new method that changes practice

  • originally

    can suggest something unusual, but it often means in a distinctive style rather than by inventing a new method

  • ingeniously

    emphasizes clever problem-solving more strongly than broad innovation

Antonyms
  • conventionally

    describes doing something in the usual accepted way

  • traditionally

    focuses on older established methods rather than new ones

Grammar Patterns

verb + innovatively

be innovatively + past participle

Usage Note

Usually describes a practical change in how something is designed, built, organized, or promoted. It is more common in reports about business, education, technology, and public projects than in casual conversation.

Common Mistakes

The chef cooked innovatively of local fish.
The chef cooked innovatively with local fish.
use with to show the material or ingredient used in the new approach.

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: adverb/1

Innovatively describes doing something through a new method, system, or design that changes the usual way of working. Creatively is wider and can describe any imaginative action, even when it does not introduce a new practical method. Ingeniously is closer when the point is clever problem-solving, especially in a difficult situation, but it does not always suggest broader innovation. Conventionally is the contrast when something is done in the familiar standard way. A company can market a product creatively with a funny video, but it markets it innovatively when it invents a new sales approach that others were not using before.

innovatively ↗creatively ↗ingeniously ↗conventionally ↗

Common collocations

Phrases

  • innovatively designed
  • innovatively built
  • innovatively marketed

Etymology

LatinEnglish

Innovatively comes from innovative plus the adverb ending -ly. Innovative developed from innovation, which entered English through Latin roots connected with making something new or introducing change. That history fits the modern meaning of doing something by using a new idea or method.

First known use

1806

1806, in the meaning defined above