Meaning & use
Explorative
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Relating to or involving exploration; inclined to investigate or examine something new.
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The team took an explorative approach to solving the unfamiliar problem.
Her explorative research uncovered several unexpected patterns in the data.
A note on using this word
A less common variant of 'exploratory'; both are considered standard English.
Words with a similar meaning
exploratoryinvestigative
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