Re: The usage of the term "explorative"

cjx7m@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I would like to know if the adjective explorative can be acceptably
used to describe a person who is inquisitive or likes to explore? Many
thanks for your help.

I've never seen or heard it used that way. I wouldn't use it that way. If
I saw "She's explorative" as a descriptive sentence about someone, I'd
snicker at it, unless it were something like "She's an explorative {beast
/ beauty / charmer / type}".

The British National Corpus had this to say about my search for that
word:

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

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Results of your search

Your query was

explorative

Only 7 solutions found for this query

1. Several cups of coffee later, and many cigarettes (not to speak of his
midday repast, a small bowl of Rice Crispies -- a suitable delicacy,
given his previous late night explorative jazz session with Sonny Rollins
and the group Was Not Was) later, he kindly consented to our task: the
victim was ours.

2. His latest personal explorative project began a couple of years ago.

3. Pedro Almodovar's latest film marks his first attempt at a truly
explorative internal narrative --; as he explains: "You don't know it
when you start to write a script, you think you're telling a story."

4.Observational studies and explorative interviews are often used to
obtain this information.

5. The hookworm is an explorative beast.

6. To this point was Wordsworth come, as far as I can conceive when he
wrote "Tintern Abbey" and it seems to me that his Genius is explorative
of those dark Passages....

7. But the approach is patient, curious and explorative, not a
condemnation that could, all too easily, have been staged.

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