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experimental

  • /ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/
  • /ɪkˌspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/

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From experiment + -al.

adjective more experimental · most experimental

  1. Pertaining to or founded on experiment. Chemistry is an experimental science.
  2. Serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment. Brown-Séquard, noting that Addison's disease involved the failure of the adrenal (or suprarenal) glands near the kidneys, removed them in experimental animals, and thus proved they were necessary for life […].
  3. Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment. his experimental band
  4. Experiential, empirical. experimental knowledge

noun experimentals

  1. The subject of an experiment.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: trial, test, observational, empirical, model, pilot, data-based, experimentation, tentative, experiment, investigational, demonstration, study, prototype, pre-test, triage

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adj serving to be experimented upon; used in an experiment

Русскийподо́пытный podópytnyj

adj of or pertaining to an experiment

Españolexperimental
한국어실험적 silheomjeok
中文實驗的 /实验的 shíyàn de
हिन्दीप्रायोगिक prāyogik
Portuguêsexperimental
Françaisexpérimental
Deutschexperimentell
Italianosperimentale
Ελληνικάπειραματικός peiramatikós
Românăexperimental
Русскийэксперимента́льный eksperimentálʹnyj, о́пытный ópytnyj

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@misc{experimental_2026,
  title = {experimental},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/experimental},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}