experimentalist
Americannoun
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a person who enjoys experimenting or trying new things, especially in the arts.
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a scientist whose research relies on experiments or who is skilled in designing and conducting them.
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a person who subscribes to philosophical empiricism.
adjective
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fond of experimenting or trying new things, especially in the arts.
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of or relating to a scientific or philosophical emphasis on experiment or experience rather than theory.
Example Sentences
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But their emphasis here presents Man Ray, who was a talented portrait photographer, as an experimentalist chasing rather than creating imagery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Of course, many artists before her have dabbled in the avant-garde deconstruction of the songwriting craft — fellow experimentalist Juana Molina comes to mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025
Sivak, a theorist, and Bechhoefer, an experimentalist, bring complementary approaches to their work, and they have been able to attract trainees who want to work with both.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
A muon collider’s ability to more clearly probe Higgs physics sets it apart, says Donatella Lucchesi, an experimentalist at the University of Padua and Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024
“Lawrence the experimentalist and Oppenheimer the theoretical man formed about as strong a team as you could imagine in physics,” James Brady told an interviewer years later.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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