Conservative
Conservative adjective - Tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions.
Groundbreaking is an antonym for conservative.
Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking adjective - Being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before.
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Shown Their Work: The American architectural community (or at least the more conservative element of it) during the 1920s-1940s was stuck in a classicist rut—this is why guys like Frank Lloyd Wright were so groundbreaking.
Source: Literature / The Fountainhead
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