Adjective: explorative ik'splor-u-tiv or ik'splór-u-tiv [N. Amer], ik'spló-ru-tiv [Brit]
- Serving in or intended for exploration or discovery
"an explorative operation";
- exploratory
See also: alpha, beta, precursive, precursory, preliminary, searching, wildcat
Antonym: nonexplorative