Meaning of EXPLORATORY
| Pronunciation: | | ik'splowru`towree
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| | Definition: | | [adj] serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaisance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats" |
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| | Synonyms: | | explorative, preliminary, searching, wildcat |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*plor"a*to*ry\, a. [L. exploratorius.]
Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining;
explorative. --Sir H. Wotton.
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| | Related Terms: | | advanced, analytic, avant-garde, examinational, examinatorial, examining, explorational, explorative, fact-finding, feeling, groping, heuristic, inaugural, indagative, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, original, preceding, preliminary, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic |
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