ground-breaking
adjective, noun
ground-breaking is an adjective meaning “innovative, different than other things of its type” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-O-U-N-D-B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G.
What does ground-breaking mean?
adjective
- 1
innovative, different than other things of its type.
ground-breaking technology
noun
- 1
A ceremony marking the commencement of construction of a road, bridge, or building.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ground-breaking?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-ground-breaking.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ground-breaking
- more ground-breaking comparative
- most ground-breaking superlative
- ground-breakings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with ground-breaking
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: groundbreaking (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Ground-breaking in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense innovative:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | bahnbrechend |
| Spanish | rompedor |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.