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
Anyma, the EDM producer and audio-visual experimentalist, will take over the venue on New Year’s Eve for 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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
Is it strictly music rooted in the past and played with acoustic instruments, or can it include more forward-thinking artists like the Americana experimentalist Jake Blount and the blues rocker Amythyst Kiah?
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Somewhere between Bragg the theorist and Perutz the experimentalist was Francis, who occasionally did experiments but more often was immersed in the theories for solving protein structures.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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