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exploratory

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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective exploratory has 1 sense

exploratory(a = adj.all) explorative - serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaissance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats"

Derived forms verb explore₄, verb explore₃, verb explore₁, verb explore₂

Antonym: nonexploratory

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CIDE DICTIONARY

exploratory, a. [L. exploratorius.].

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

exploratory, adj.
1 (of discussion etc.) preliminary, serving to establish procedure etc.
2 of or concerning exploration or investigation (exploratory surgery).

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THESAURUS

exploratory

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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