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Definition: Explorative |
ExplorativeAdjective1. Serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaisance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: ExplorativeSynonym: exploratory (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonexploratory (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Explorative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Explorative" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "explorative": explorative talks. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "explorative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kërkimor (exploratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | â€ØªÙ…هيدى (exploratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | изÑледователен (exploratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prùzkumný (exploratory, fact finding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kutató (appraising, exploratory, explorer, investigative, investigator, investigatory, questioning, researcher, scanner, searching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | explorativeay explorativo, exploração (administration, cultivation, development, diagnostics, exploitation, exploiter, exploration, farm, farming, holding, investigation, maintenance, management, March, Operation, operation and management, operations, profligacy, reconnaissance, research, rip off, scanning, search). (various references) иÑÑледующий (exploratory). (various references) istraživaÄki (exploratory, heuristic, research). (various references) exploratorio (exploratory). (various references) utforskande (examining, exploration, exploratory, exploring, investigative), forsknings- (exploratory). (various references) keÅŸif türünden (exploratory), arama amaçlı, araÅŸtırma ile ilgili (exploratory), araÅŸtırma (ascertainment, checkback, checkover, checkup, discourse, disquisition, exploration, exploratory, inquiries, inquiry, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, investigative, probe, pursuit, quest, research, review, search, study). (various references) доÑлідницький (exploratory, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigative, investigatory, probing). (various references) để thăm dò (exploratory), để thám hiểm (exploratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "explorative": exploratively. (additional references) | |
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"Explorative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Exploratie, exploratively, explotative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "explorative" (pronounced 'Ex*plor"a*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-o-p-r-t-v-x" | |
-2 letters: evaporite, exploiter, operative, overleapt. | |
-3 letters: aerolite, elevator, expiator, levirate, livetrap, overlate, overleap, pearlite, petiolar, relative, violater. | |
-4 letters: atelier, elative, exalter, expiate, exploit, explore, leavier, levator, operate, overapt, overate, overeat, overlap, overlax, overlet, overlie, overlit, overtax, overtip, parolee, peatier, peloria, perlite, petiole, petrale, pileate, pivotal, plaiter, platier, pleater, poitrel, poleaxe, politer, prelate, prevail, private. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-o-p-r-t-v-x" | |
+2 letters: exploratively, extrapolative. | |
+5 letters: overexploitation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 70 6C 6F 72 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01110000 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x p l o r a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0070 006C 006F 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3990827881846786758871 |
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