experimental

3 definitions • 8 examples

using new methods, ideas, substances, etc. that have not been tried before, usually in order to find out what effect they have:

The changes to the distribution system are purely experimental at the moment.

experimental drug Some patients were given the experimental drug, while others were given a placebo.

experimental treatment Both are experimental treatments for cancer.

Scientists began clinical trials on an experimental malaria vaccine.

Her poetry is too experimental to be widely popular.

relating to or using scientific experiments (= tests):

experimental data Experimental data suggests that cholesterol may play a role in the disease.

experimental evidence We have been waiting many years for this kind of experimental evidence.

experimental study observational and experimental studies of children's vocabulary development

using or based on new ideas