trial-and-error
Adjective: - Involving or based on a method of trying different possibilities until a successful result is achieved: Describes a process of solving problems, learning, or making discoveries through repeated experimentation, observation of outcomes, and adjustment, rather than through theoretical calculation or prior knowledge.
This adjective describes a practical, experimental approach. It is typically used before a noun (attributive position) to modify words like method, process, procedure, approach, or learning.
- The team used a trial-and-error method to fix the old engine.
- Language acquisition in infants involves a significant amount of trial-and-error learning.
- We found the correct settings through trial-and-error experimentation.
- Conceptual Extension: The term can be applied metaphorically to describe any iterative process of adjustment and improvement, not just literal scientific experiments.
- Finding the right work-life balance is often a trial-and-error journey.
- In Formal Contexts: While describing an empirical method, it can be used in academic writing, particularly in fields like psychology, education, engineering, and biology.
- The study examined trial-and-error problem-solving strategies in primates.
- Trial (noun): A test or experiment to assess quality, value, or performance. Can be part of the compound process.
- The new drug is undergoing clinical trials.
- Error (noun): A mistake. The component that the process seeks to identify and reduce.
- The program crashed due to a coding error.
- Empirical: Based on observation or experience rather than theory.
- Experimental: Involving or based on experiment.
- Heuristic: Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves; often involves trial and error.
- Hit-or-miss: Dependent on chance; haphazard. (This synonym emphasizes the unpredictability, whereas "trial-and-error" implies a systematic, though experimental, approach.)
- By trial and error: This is the adverbial phrase form of the adjective.
- He learned to play the guitar by trial and error.
- Learn from one's mistakes: An idiomatic expression capturing the core idea of the trial-and-error process.
- The startup succeeded because the founders knew how to learn from their mistakes.
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relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory
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they adopted a trial-and-error procedure
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trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated
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he argued that all learning is a trial-and-error process that resembles biological evolution
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