experimental
adjective
[ ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt(ə)l ]
• (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
• "an experimental drug"
Similar:
exploratory,
investigational,
probing,
fact-finding,
trial and error,
trial,
test,
pilot,
speculative,
conjectural,
hypothetical,
tentative,
preliminary,
probationary,
prototype,
under review,
under the microscope,
on the drawing board,
empirical,
observational,
untested,
untried,
• (of art or an artistic technique) involving a radically new and innovative style.
• "experimental music"
Similar:
innovative,
innovatory,
new,
original,
inventive,
radical,
avant-garde,
alternative,
fringe,
unfamiliar,
unorthodox,
unconventional,
eccentric,
offbeat,
off-centre,
bohemian,
left-field,
go-ahead,
way-out,
• based on experience as opposed to authority or conjecture.
• "an experimental knowledge of God"
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘having personal experience’, also ‘experienced, observed’): from medieval Latin experimentalis, from Latin experimentum (see experiment).