Alternative
Alternative adjective - Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities.
Pioneering and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pioneering" instead an adjective "Alternative".
Pioneering
Alternative and pioneering are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead an adjective "Pioneering".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Suzanne Vega: One of adult-alternative radio's pioneering females had only two songs that crossed over onto pop radio.
Source: Two-Hit Wonder - Primus are a pioneering act in Alternative Metal and Funk Metal and are hardly considered a one-hit wonder to most people.
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In 1993, as part of its Christmas in New York season, Channel Four broadcast "The Alternative Queen's Message", made by veteran and pioneering Flamboyant Gay Quentin Crisp (a British expat in New York from 1981 until his death in 1999), to run parallel to the Queen's speech on the other channels.
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Pioneering and Alternative. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alternative/pioneering
Alternative & Pioneering. N.p., 2016. Web. 03 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/alternative/pioneering>.
Pioneering or Alternative. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/alternative/pioneering.
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