Other forms: innovated, innovating, innovates
To innovate is to bring in new methods or ideas. Innovate or fail.
The word has been worn thin by business writing and still means something exact. To innovate is to change how a thing is done, not merely to do it better.
1verbinnovateTo bring in new methods or ideas.
“They innovate carefully and ship late, and it works.”
innovate is a change.
Latin innovare, to renew, from in plus novus, new; the English word is recorded from 1548.
Latin
innovātus
English, today
innovate
Built from
Borrowed from Latin innovātus. 1548; Latin innovātus, perfect passive participle of innovō (“to renew”), see -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA