MEANING
To introduce or develop a new method, practice, or product.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- innovate in design
- innovate rapidly
On the page
Small teams can innovate without abandoning reliable procedures.
Word forms
- Base
- innovate
- Past tense
- innovated
- Past participle
- innovated
- Present participle
- innovating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- innovate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are innovating
- Present perfect
- have/has innovated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been innovating
- Past
- innovated
- Past continuous
- was/were innovating
- Past perfect
- had innovated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been innovating
- Future
- will innovate
- Future continuous
- will be innovating
- Future perfect
- will have innovated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been innovating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: innovate; innovates; innovated; innovated; innovating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: innovates.
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