Meaning & use
experimental
Based on new ideas or methods that are still being tested, rather than proven or widely accepted.
See it in a sentence
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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