Meaning & use

experimental

adjective·Academic

Based on new ideas or methods that are still being tested, rather than proven or widely accepted.

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The hospital offered an experimental treatment to patients who had exhausted other options.

The band's experimental sound mixed jazz, electronic beats, and traditional folk instruments.

A note on using this word

Common in science for untested methods and in art for unconventional, boundary-pushing styles.

Words with a similar meaning

untestedinnovative

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Words with an opposite meaning

provenconventional

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