Antonyms for exploratory
ɪkˈsplɔr əˌtɔr i, -ˈsploʊr əˌtoʊr iex·plorato·ry

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1. exploratory, explorativeadjective

   serving in or intended for exploration or discovery

   "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaissance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats"

   Antonyms:
   unexploratory, unexplorative, nonexploratory, nonexplorative

   Synonyms:
   explorative

How to use exploratory in a sentence?

1. Janice Schneider:

   The rules help ensure that any exploratory drilling operations in this highly challenging environment will be conducted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, while protecting the marine, coastal and human environments, and Alaska Natives’ cultural traditions and access to subsistence resources.

2. Chief Operating Officer Greg Hill:

   We have significantly decreased our 2016 capital and exploratory expenditures, and we plan to reduce activity at all of our producing assets.

3. Karla Coronado:

   In an exploratory conversation I told him that in other countries there were wars and that those children need [ all the existing ] toys to be able to forget about that.

4. Jonathan Adler:

   People who do what's called exploratory processing — which means deeply trying to make sense of their experience before creating a redemption sequence at the end — actually do better than the people who just do redemption without exploring the challenge.

5. Richard Peirce:

   A shark has got no paws or hands, so if it wants to explore something, the only capability it's got to do that is to put it in its mouth, that's why we often get exploratory bites which don't result in death and sometimes don't even result in serious injury. If you go swimming and splashing away, you're almost inviting the shark to come give you an exploratory or an attack bite.

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