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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,
Opposite: finished, theoretical,
• (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,
Opposite: stale, hackneyed,
• 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).


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