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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. serving in or intended for exploration or discovery;
- Example: "an exploratory operation"
- Example: "exploratory reconnaissance"
- Example: "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"
- Example: "exploratory talks between diplomats"
[syn: exploratory, explorative]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exploratory \Ex*plor"a*to*ry\, a. [L. exploratorius.]
   Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining;
   explorative. --Sir H. Wotton.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

exploratory
    adj 1: 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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "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