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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. designed to find information or ascertain facts;
- Example: "a fact-finding committee"
- Example: "investigative reporting"
[syn: fact-finding, investigative, investigatory]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Investigative \In*ves"ti*ga*tive\, a. Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

investigative adj 1: designed to find information or ascertain facts; "a fact- finding committee"; "investigative reporting" [syn: fact-finding, investigative, investigatory]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "investigative": analytic, curious, examinational, examinatorial, examining, explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling, groping, heuristic, indagative, inquiring, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigatory, questioning, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic