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avant-garde  

   (French)  
      n  
1    those artists, writers, musicians, etc., whose techniques and ideas are markedly experimental or in advance of those generally accepted  
      adj  
2    of such artists, etc., their ideas, or techniques  
3    radical; daring  
     (from French: vanguard)  
♦   avant-gardism      n  
♦   avant-gardist      n  
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avant-garde  
      adj   experimental, far-out     (slang)   ground-breaking, innovative, innovatory, pioneering, progressive, unconventional, way-out     (informal)  
  
Antonyms     
   conservative, conventional, hidebound, reactionary, traditional  

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edgy
adj.
1. nervous, anxious; 2. at the forefront of a trend; experimental or avant-garde

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