novel
new, original, and not previously encountered
Word origin: From Latin novus, new.
Novel in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing novel in a sentence.
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.
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.
More GRE words starting with N
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