experimental

Pluralexperimentals

1. 1
   adjective

   Based on doing real tests to learn or prove something.

   Like learning if a recipe works by cooking it, not just by reading it.

   The team found experimental proof that plants grow faster in sunlight.

   Her experimental results showed that the new soap cleaned better.

   Similarempirical

   Oppositetheoretical

2. 2
   adjective

   Done as a test or trial of something new and not yet proven.

   Like trying a new recipe on your family before serving it at a big party.

   The doctors offered her an experimental medicine that is still being tested.

   Our city is trying an experimental bus route this summer.

   Similarinnovative, pilot, exploratory

   Oppositeconventional, traditional

3. 3
   adjective

   Being the thing or group that gets tested in an experiment.

   The experimental mice got the new food, and the other mice got their normal food.

   Children in the experimental class used the new reading app for one month.

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4. 4
   adjective

   Based on a person's own real experience of something.

   She had only read about hunger in books, but the long, hard winter gave her an experimental knowledge of it.

   His advice came from experimental wisdom gained over a long life.

   Similarexperiential, empirical

   Oppositetheoretical

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   A person, animal, or thing that is tested in an experiment.

   Each experimental in the study got the new vitamin every morning.

   The scientists weighed every experimental before and after the test.

   Similarsubject

   Oppositecontrol

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