empirical

empirical

adjective

Definition of EMPIRICAL

1

based on observation or experience <guidelines for raising children that are based on empirical evidence>

Synonyms existential, experiential, experimental, objective, observational

Related Words actual, factual, genuine, hard, material, real; accepted, established, tried, tried-and-true; indisputable, undeniable; demonstrable, provable, verifiable

Near Antonyms conjectural, hypothetical, speculative; unproven, unsubstantiated; metaphysical, transcendentalist, visionary

Antonyms nonempirical, theoretical (also theoretic), unempirical

2

capable of being proven as true or real <a philosopher who does not regard “God exists” as an empirical statement>

Synonyms checkable, confirmable, demonstrable, empirical (also empiric), provable, supportable, sustainable

Related Words certifiable, documentable, well-founded; defensible, excusable, justifiable, vindicable, warrantable; alleged, assumed, conjectured, guessed, presumed, surmised, suspected

Near Antonyms debatable, disprovable, disputable, refutable

Antonyms indemonstrable, insupportable, unprovable, unsupportable, unsustainable, unverifiable

Variants of EMPIRICAL

empirical also empiric