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exploratory

/ɛkˈsplɒɹ.ə.tə.ɹi/US/ɛkˈsploɹ.əˌtoɹ.i/

exploratory adjective: serving to explore or investigate.

Adjective

exploratory (not comparable)

  1. Serving to explore or investigate.
    • Meanwhile, for those who doubted the sheer breadth of music Glastonbury offers, a short walk took you from Thundercat’s exploratory, spaced-out take on jazz-funk – where the smooth sound of yacht rock crashed into extended passages of improvisation to thrilling effect – to the aforementioned Craig...2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2018
    • Among other work done, according to the letter: CPR replaced the bottom of a deteriorating stair column base with hollow steel structural sections; conducted exploratory demolition on the underside of an eave that required “removal and reconstruction”; and removed all loose “cracked, spalled...2021 July 2, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells, Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, “Firm held off on repairs because of stability issues in months before Surfside building collapse”, in CNN, archived from...

Noun

exploratory (plural exploratories)

  1. An exploration or investigation.

exploratory meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

exploratory in Tamil

ஆராயுந்தன்மையது

exploratory in Urdu

تحقیقاتی

exploratory in Malayalam

investigational, investigative, explorative
പര്യവേക്ഷണപരമായ, അന്വേഷണാത്മകമായ, അന്വേഷണപരമായ, പരിശോധിക്കുന്ന, ഏഷണ, ഏഷണിക

Examples of exploratory in a sentence

  • After exploratory surgery, the extent of the problem was localized to the left lower quadrant.
  • As well as having an exploratory function, these flights were calculated to relieve cosmophobia.
  • Consequently, exploratory factor analyses were utilized to identify a factor structure represented by the survey items.

All 20 example sentences with exploratory

Forms of exploratory

pluralexploratories

Origin of exploratory

From explore + -atory.

Words formed from exploratory

Phrases with exploratory

Questions about exploratory

What does exploratory mean?
Exploratory means serving to explore or investigate.
What is exploratory in Tamil?
Exploratory in Tamil is ஆராயுந்தன்மையது. See Exploratory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exploratory?
Exploratory can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce exploratory?
Exploratory is pronounced /ɛkˈsplɒɹ.ə.tə.ɹi/ (UK).

Words near exploratory in the dictionary

  1. exploratorily
  2. exploratoriness
  3. exploratorium
  4. exploratoriums
  5. explorators
  6. exploratory
  7. exploratory committee
  8. exploratory committees
  9. exploratress
  10. exploratresses
  11. explore

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exploratory (page history and authors); exploratory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exploratory (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exploratory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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