Thesaurus
empirical
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of EMPIRICAL
1
based on observation or experience <guidelines for raising children that are based on empirical evidence>
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
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
Variants of EMPIRICAL
empirical also empiric
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