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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exploratory |
| Synonyms: | beginning, developmental, empirical, experiential, first stage, laboratory, momentary, on approval, pilot, preliminary, preparatory, primary, probationary, provisional, speculative, temporary, tentative, test, trial, trial-and-error, unconcluded, under probation, unproved |
| Antonyms: | proven, tested, tried |
| Main Entry: | provisional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contingent, tentative |
| Synonyms: | conditional, dependent, ephemeral, experimental, interim, limited, makeshift, passing, pro tem, provisionary, provisory, qualified, rough-and-ready, stopgap, temporary, test, transient, transitional |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, permanent |
| Main Entry: | tentative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conditional, experimental |
| Synonyms: | acting, ad interim, conjectural, contingent, dependent, iffy, indefinite, makeshift, not final, not settled, on trial, open for consideration, probationary, provisional, provisionary, provisory, speculative, subject to change, temporary, test, trial, unconfirmed, undecided, unsettled |
| Antonyms: | certain, decisive, definite, final, sure |
| Main Entry: | trial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experimental |
| Synonyms: | balloon, exploratory, pilot, preliminary, probationary, provisional, tentative, test, testing |
| Antonyms: | definite, known, proven |
| Main Entry: | prolegomenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preliminary |
| Synonyms: | basic, elemental, elementary, exploratory, first, fundamental, inductive, initiatory, introductory, opening, pilot, preceding, precursory, prefatory, preparatory, preparing, primal, primary, prior, qualifying, readying, test, trial |
| Main Entry: | heightened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavy |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, complex, complicated, concentrated, confused, fierce, formidable, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, intense, intensive, intolerable, knotty, labored, laborious, onerous, oppressive, profound, recondite, rough, serious, solemn, stormy, strenuous, te |
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| Main Entry: | trial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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analytic, cut-and-try, docimastic, empirical, essaying, experimental, icarian, on one's trial, peirastic, probationary, probative, probatory, provisional, tentative, under probation
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| Concept: | Demonstration. |
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-adjectives
demonstrating, demonstrative, demonstrable; probative, unanswerable, conclusive; apodeictic, apodeictical; irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable., categorical, decisive, crucial., demonstrated; proven; unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted; evident., deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following.
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| Antonyms: | confutation |
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| Concept: | Essay. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
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-adjectives
essaying; experimental; tentative, empirical, probationary.
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