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- exploratory
collapse - serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaissance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats" related words >
- advanced,
- analytic,
- avant-garde,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- fact-finding,
- feeling,
- groping,
- heuristic,
- inaugural,
- indagative,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- original,
- preceding,
- preliminary,
- tentative,
- testing,
- trying,
- zetetic
- heuristic
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- a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
- of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation related words >
- analytic,
- cut-and-try,
- empirical,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- experimental,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- feeling,
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- proving,
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- trial,
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- trying,
- verificatory,
- zetetic
- a fortiori,
- a posteriori,
- a priori,
- algebraic,
- analytic,
- categorical,
- classificatory,
- conditional,
- deductive,
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- discursive,
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- fact-finding,
- feeling,
- geometric,
- groping,
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- hypothetical,
- indagative,
- inductive,
- inferential,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- maieutic,
- mathematical,
- numeric,
- ratiocinative,
- ratiocinatory,
- rational,
- reasoning,
- schematic,
- segmental,
- soritical,
- subtle,
- syllogistic,
- synthetic,
- tentative,
- testing,
- trying,
- zetetic
- groping
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- acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence; "a groping effort to understand" related words >
- analytic,
- awkward,
- blankminded,
- callow,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- feeling,
- gauche,
- green,
- heuristic,
- ignorant,
- inane,
- indagative,
- inexperienced,
- innocent,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- know-nothing,
- naive,
- nescient,
- raw,
- simple,
- strange to,
- tentative,
- testing,
- trying,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unposted,
- unripe,
- unsure,
- unversed,
- vacuous,
- zetetic
- analytic
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- of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"
- expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
- using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles); "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind"
- using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus; "analytic statics" related words >
- a fortiori,
- a posteriori,
- a priori,
- acute,
- algebraic,
- analytical,
- categorical,
- classificatory,
- conditional,
- deductive,
- deep,
- dialectic,
- discursive,
- enthymematic,
- enumerative,
- epagogic,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- feeling,
- geometric,
- groping,
- heuristic,
- hypothetical,
- indagative,
- inductive,
- inferential,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- keen,
- maieutic,
- mathematical,
- numeric,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- profound,
- ratiocinative,
- ratiocinatory,
- rational,
- reasoning,
- schematic,
- segmental,
- sharp,
- soritical,
- subtle,
- syllogistic,
- synthetic,
- tentative,
- testing,
- trying,
- zetetic
- testing
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- the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons"
- an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox" related words >
- R and D,
- analytic,
- control,
- control experiment,
- controlled experiment,
- cut and try,
- cut-and-try,
- empirical,
- empiricism,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- experiment,
- experimental,
- experimental design,
- experimental method,
- experimental proof,
- experimentalism,
- experimentation,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- feeling,
- groping,
- heuristic,
- hit and miss,
- hit-or-miss,
- indagative,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- noble experiment,
- pilot,
- pragmatism,
- probationary,
- probative,
- probatory,
- proving,
- provisional,
- research and development,
- rule of thumb,
- tentative,
- tentative method,
- tentativeness,
- test,
- trial,
- trial and error,
- trial-and-error,
- trying,
- verificatory,
- zetetic
- trying
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- hard to endure; "fell upon trying times" related words >
- adverse,
- analytic,
- annoying,
- antagonistic,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- conflicting,
- contrary,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- crushing,
- cut-and-try,
- demanding,
- detrimental,
- devitalizing,
- difficult,
- dispiriting,
- disquieting,
- distressing,
- draining,
- empirical,
- enervating,
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- examinational,
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- exhausting,
- exigent,
- experimental,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- feeling,
- frustrating,
- groping,
- grueling,
- hard,
- harmful,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- heuristic,
- hit-or-miss,
- hostile,
- in opposition,
- indagative,
- infuriating,
- inimical,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- investigational,
- investigative,
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- irksome,
- irritating,
- killing,
- maddening,
- miserable,
- not easy,
- onerous,
- opposed,
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- opposite,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- pilot,
- plaguey,
- probationary,
- probative,
- probatory,
- proving,
- provisional,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- sapping,
- sinister,
- sticky,
- straining,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- superincumbent,
- taxing,
- tentative,
- test,
- testing,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- trial,
- trial-and-error,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- unfavorable,
- untoward,
- upsetting,
- verificatory,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- weakening,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weighty,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- wretched,
- zetetic
- acting,
- ad hoc,
- ad interim,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- ambling,
- analytic,
- apprehensive,
- awkward,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- blankminded,
- callow,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- counterfeit,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- cut-and-try,
- dangerous,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- desultory,
- determined,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- disinclined,
- dumb,
- dummy,
- easy,
- empirical,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- experimental,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- fake,
- faltering,
- feeling,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gauche,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- green,
- groping,
- guarded,
- halting,
- hazardous,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heuristic,
- hit-or-miss,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- ignorant,
- imitation,
- improvisational,
- improvised,
- inane,
- indagative,
- indecisive,
- indolent,
- inexperienced,
- infirm,
- innocent,
- insecure,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- insubstantial,
- interim,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- jury-rigged,
- know-nothing,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- mindful,
- mock,
- moderate,
- naive,
- nescient,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- perilous,
- phony,
- pilot,
- pinch,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- precarious,
- probationary,
- probative,
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- proving,
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- provisory,
- proxy,
- prudent,
- raw,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- reserve,
- resolute,
- risky,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scrupling,
- secondary,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- simple,
- slack,
- slippery,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- spare,
- speculative,
- staggering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- stopgap,
- straining,
- strange to,
- strolling,
- substitute,
- temporary,
- test,
- testing,
- thorough,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- toddling,
- token,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- treacherous,
- trial,
- trial-and-error,
- trudging,
- trying,
- turtlelike,
- unacquainted,
- unadventurous,
- unapprized,
- uncertain,
- uncommunicative,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- undaring,
- undependable,
- uneasy,
- unenlightened,
- unenterprising,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfamiliar,
- unhurried,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unposted,
- unprecipitate,
- unreliable,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- unversed,
- utility,
- vacillatory,
- vacuous,
- venturesome,
- verificatory,
- vicarious,
- waddling,
- willing,
- wobbly,
- zetetic
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