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Adjective: explorative  ik'splor-u-tiv or ik'splór-u-tiv [N. Amer], ik'spló-ru-tiv [Brit]
  1. Serving in or intended for exploration or discovery
    "an explorative operation";
    - exploratory

See also: alpha, beta, preliminary, searching, wildcat

Antonym: unexplorative

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