experimentalist
Speech parts
1. experimentalist - Noun
2. experimentalist - Adjective
Meaning
One who performs experiments.
A person who values the results of experiments over theory.
A person who seeks or enjoys new experiences.
experimentalist (not comparable)
Relating to experimentation.
Synonyms
Examples
Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
I have long believed that an experimentalist should not be unduely inhibited by theoretical untidyness.
A democratic experimentalist will not stand waiting for the next magical moment. Rather than have us be crowned by history, he will insist that we crown ourselves.
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
Faraday was an excellent experimentalist who conveyed his ideas in clear and simple language; his mathematical abilities, however, did not extend as far as trigonometry and were limited to the simplest algebra.
Though representing a general return to certain notions of music-making that are often considered to be classical or romantic, not all postmodern composers have eschewed the experimentalist or academic tenets of modernism.