Empirical

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Relying on or derived from observation or experiment.
  • adjective. Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment.
  • adjective. Guided by practical experience and not theory, especially in medicine.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or derived from experience or experiments; depending upon or derived from the observation of phenomena.
  • as a general proposition, from a narrow range of observation, without any warrant for its exactitude or for its wider validity.
  • Pertaining to the medical practice of an empiric, in either of the medical senses of that word; hence, charlatanical; quackish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to or based on experience.
  • adjective. Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
  • adjective. Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
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  • adjective. relying on medical quackery
  • adjective. derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
    • Word Usage
    "To all knowledge obtained through the observation of facts and phenomena, the term empirical is properly applied."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    nonempirical  
    cross-reference
    anecdotal evidence  empirical certainty  law  
    Form
    empirically  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    lyrical  satirical  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anecdotal  conceptual  elementary  geographical  metaphysical  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Cyrenaic  Eleatic  Epicurean  Megarian  Stoic  
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