Experimental
Experimental adjective - Made or done as an experiment.
Practical and experimental are semantically related In some cases you can use "Practical" instead the word "Experimental" as an adjective or an adverb.
Both words in one sentence
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Notice in real life there is a similar experimental particle that could do the same thing in few thousandth of a second, which is still not practical but proves the theory to be correct.
Source: Life Imitates Art -
Brazil has no coal power plants, but its third nuclear reactor plant has now gone online; those plants are more experimental than practical, but they do produce some (very expensive) energy.
Source: Useful Notes / Brazil -
Robots and Mechanical Men, and are employed mainly on testing new or experimental robots in practical situations either on planets or space stations.
Source: Buddy Cop Show
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Practical and Experimental. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/experimental/practical
Experimental & Practical. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/experimental/practical>.
Practical or Experimental. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/experimental/practical.
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