trailblazing

English

Alternative forms

• trail-blazing

Etymology

From trail +‎ blazing.

Adjective

trailblazing (comparative more trailblazing, superlative most trailblazing)

1. Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.
   • 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 120:

     One can only wonder what led Rothstein to claim that Neville was such a trail-blazing pornographer.

   • 2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition)‎^[1], page 100:

     The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.

Related terms

• blaze
• blaze a trail
• blazer
• blazing
• trail
• trailblaze
• trailblazer

 

Translations

resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering

• Dutch: baanbrekend (nl), wegbereidend
• Faroese: slóðbrótandi
• Finnish: uraauurtava (fi)
• German: bahnbrechend (de), wegweisend (de), richtungsweisend (de), wegbereitend

Verb

trailblazing

1. present participle and gerund of trailblaze