trial

trial
n
1. hearing, inquisition, inquiry; investigation, examination, review, scrutiny; study, analysis.
2. experimentation, trial and error, hit and miss, process of elimination; test procedure, operation, Inf. pilot.
3. attempt, effort, essay, endeavor, undertaking; All Inf. try, go, shot, fling, whirl; All Sl. crack, whack, lick, stab.
4. proof, proof positive, verification, confirmation, corroboration, substantiation, authentication.
5. test, experiment, venture, tryout, Inf. workout, dry run, trial run, road test; audition, rehearsal.
6. probation, trial period, test or testing period.
7. engagement, encounter, meet, match, contest.
8. adversity, hardship, misfortune, tribulation, trouble; pain, distress, suffering; grief, woe, sorror, heartache; hard times, heavy weather; bad luck, hard luck, Inf. tough or rotten or lousy luck, Brit. hard lines; bad or ill fortune.
9. affliction, visitation, curse, blight; shock, blow, bolt from the blue, Psychiatry. trauma; reverse, reversal, setback, check; ordeal; load, burden, weight, heavy load or burden, cross, cross to bear; inconvenience, disadvantage, handicap.
10. nuisance, pest, bother, Inf. headache, Inf. pain, Sl. pain in the neck or rear, Sl. hassle; annoyance, vexation, irritant, bur, thorn in the side or flesh; bane, gadfly, buttonholer.
adj
11. experimental, tentative, hypothetical, probationary, pending, on approval; exploratory, pilot, under examination or consideration, provisional, untried; under observation, under the microscope, in the spotlight, on trial.

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