Entry Word: empirical

Function: adjective

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

Synonyms experimental, objective, observational

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

Near Antonyms conjectural, hypothetical, speculative; unproven, unsubstantiated, unverified

Antonyms nonempirical, theoretical (also theoretic)