exploratory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ex=plor=a=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

exploratory, a. [L. exploratorius.].

 Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.  Sir H. Wotton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exploratory, adj.
1 (of discussion etc.) preliminary, serving to establish procedure etc.
2 of or concerning exploration or investigation (exploratory surgery).

THESAURUS

exploratory

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