novel
new, original, and not previously encountered
Word origin: From Latin novus, new.
Novel in a sentence
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The researchers proposed a novel approach to treating the disease.
The team's novel approach to error correction sidestepped a bottleneck that had stalled the field for years.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “novel” well
As an adjective, novel means new and original, never before encountered, with a positive connotation of freshness. Distinguish this from the unrelated noun novel, meaning a long work of fiction.
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