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GROUNDBREAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does groundbreaking mean?
• GROUNDBREAKING (noun)
The noun GROUNDBREAKING has 1 sense:
1. the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project
Familiarity information: GROUNDBREAKING used as a noun is very rare.
• GROUNDBREAKING (adjective)
The adjective GROUNDBREAKING has 1 sense:
1. being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before
Familiarity information: GROUNDBREAKING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
groundbreaking; groundbreaking ceremony
Hypernyms ("groundbreaking" is a kind of...):
beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)
ceremony (the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before
Synonyms:
groundbreaking; innovational; innovative
Context example:
a mind so innovational, so original
Similar:
original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)
Context examples
Children living with HIV in Brazil are to benefit from the introduction of a new medicine manufactured with groundbreaking technology.
(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)
The groundbreaking study of the world’s largest reef system reveals that these events were driven mostly by variations in sea level and associated environmental changes.
(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)
Jorge Torres Marín, one of the researchers behind this groundbreaking UGR project, explains: In particular, we have observed that a greater tendency to employ self-defeating humour is indicative of high scores in psychological well-being dimensions such as happiness and, to a lesser extent, sociability.
(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)
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