'Exploratory' definitions:
Definition of 'exploratory'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: exploratory, explorative] [ant: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory]
Definition of 'Exploratory'
From: GCIDE
- Exploratory \Ex*plor"a*to*ry\, a. [L. exploratorius.] Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exploratory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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