explorative
- adjective
- /ɪkˈsplɔːrətɪv/
- Drama teachers often develop and use explorative improvisation exercises like those on the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- an explorative route
- an explorative set
If you can realize that you will be excited, you will be explorative, you'll be curious.
- If you can realize that you will be excited, you will be explorative, you'll be curious.
- Speaking of high risk explorative conversations, did you listen to Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan?
- People with ADHD can be really exciting and explorative lovers and partners willing to try new things and being open minded.
- We all have that like little boy or girl inside of us that's like kind of scared at times, but is like so explorative and like has wonderment.
- I want it to be as loose and fun and and explorative as make it countless.
- They tend to be creative and explorative types.
- It wasn't going to be an explorative, exploratory expose on all the injustices in the in the sporting world.
- And now we are at about four months old and we've got full fully explorative, fully differentiated and ready to go little cat machines.
- Steve Jobs spend a lot of time in India and spent a lot of time, or at least what he did spend time with monks and so he has quite a spiritual explorative side.
- We basically are very joyful and energetic and experimental and explorative and sometimes desperate and sad and grieving and hurting.
Examples
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The observations on explorative routes are important as they lead to a better understanding of the unexplored area.
Academic text (2016) -
We used an explorative design with an inductive approach to category development that is applicable to the investigation of understudied phenomena.
Academic text (2017) -
The general nature of the study was explorative.
Academic text (2002) -
One team member from each team was interviewed in order to provide variety in supporting our explorative aim.
Academic text (2018) -
His teacher embedded a variety of explorative activities into her classroom.
Academic text (2007) -
The present study is explorative and small-scale.
Academic text (2018) -
So let us consider launching the first explorative ship ever to sail into this uncharted ocean.
Academic text (2005) -
Despite student anxiety, educators should construct evaluations that emphasize explorative rather than restrictive exam responses and creativity over mastery of learned content.
Academic text (2003) -
In our science class, we engaged in explorative projects that helped us discover new concepts.
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The documentary was explorative, examining previously uncharted territories and cultures.
Synonyms
Made to find out facts by careful checking
Done to find out more about something
Relating to a new treatment or vaccine that is being tested in people
How Exploratory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word explorative comes from the Latin verb explorare, which meant 'to find out' or 'to scout out'. Think of explore and explorer — something explorative is meant to go 'out' and discover, test, or investigate new things, which is why it describes a search or investigation.