0 If something is groundbreaking, it is very new and a big change from other things of its type: --
His latest movie is interesting, but not groundbreaking.
1 original and important; showing a new way of doing or thinking about things: --
This groundbreaking work changed the way historians looked at slavery.
2 new and likely to have an effect on how things are done in the future: --
This book is a groundbreaking contribution to the emerging historiography of colonial medicine.
According to the publisher, this book is ' 'groundbreaking.
Their groundbreaking work has served to motivate much of the more recent research on drainage basin evolution.
Its scope is vast and its findings are innovative and groundbreaking.
Ceremonies featured groundbreaking for a new penitentiary, the opening of a modern asylum for the insane, and the celebration of new schools and educational congresses.
For these groundbreaking series of the 1960s and 1970s are of perennial interest.
He yearns for this high art regime to be destabilized, and sees the influence of mechanical reproduction as a groundbreaking intervention.
Both might have been groundbreaking, in fact, had the two studies been more synergetic.
