Usually means: Exploring deeply to uncover truth.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word investigative:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. investigative: Merriam-Webster
  2. investigative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. investigative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. investigative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. investigative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Investigative, investigative: Wordnik
  7. investigative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. investigative: Wiktionary
  9. investigative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Investigative, investigative: Dictionary.com
  11. Investigative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. investigative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. investigative: Rhymezone
  14. Investigative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. investigative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. investigative: FreeDictionary.org
  17. investigative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. investigative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. investigative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. investigative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

(Note: See investigate as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to investigation
▸ adjective:  inquisitive; curious

Similar:
inquiring, fact-finding, investigatorial, inquisitional, inquisitorial, inspectional, interrogational, inspectorial, interrogative, disquisitive, more...

Types:
research, experimental, analytical, probative, inquisitive, more...

Phrases:
investigative reporting, investigative journalism, investigative techniques, investigative journalist, investigative new drug, more...

Adjectives:
true, more, appropriate, civil, criminal

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Similar:
inquiring, fact-finding, investigatorial, inquisitional, inquisitorial, inspectional, interrogational, inspectorial, interrogative, disquisitive, more...

Types:
research, experimental, analytical, probative, inquisitive, more...

Phrases:
investigative reporting, investigative journalism, investigative techniques, investigative journalist, investigative new drug, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, more...

Adjectives:
true, more, appropriate, civil, criminal

Colors:
    dark blue,     charcoal,     black,     gray,     midnight blue, more...



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