- the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
- of or relating to the experimental treatment of artistic, musical, or literary material.
- belonging to the avant-garde: an avant-garde composer.
- unorthodox or daring; radical: To regain public trust in the news media, the organization took the avant-garde approach of including the public in the production of news.
- those artists, writers, musicians, etc, whose techniques and ideas are markedly experimental or in advance of those generally accepted
- of such artists, etc, their ideas, or techniques
- radical; daring
