Synonyms for empirical
ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəlem·pir·i·cal

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1. empiricaladjective

   Synonyms:
   empiric

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

2. empiricaladjective

   Pertaining to or based on experience.

   Synonyms:
   empiric

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

3. empiricaladjective

   Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.

   Synonyms:
   empiric

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

4. empiricaladjective

   Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.

   Synonyms:
   empiric

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. empirical

   Synonyms:
   experimental, tentative, quackish

   Antonyms:
   scientific, regular, inductive, uniform, constant

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1. empirical, empiricadjective

   derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

   "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known"

   Synonyms:
   empiric

   Antonyms:
   supposititious, divinatory, abstractive, hypothetic, a priori, theoretical, suppositional, suppositious, metaphysical, theoretic, supposed, conjectural, speculative, theory-based, hypothetical, notional

2. empiric, empiricaladjective

   relying on medical quackery

   "empiric treatment"

   Synonyms:
   empiric

   Antonyms:
   a priori, hypothetic, theoretic, divinatory, speculative, supposititious, conjectural, suppositional, supposed, hypothetical, notional, metaphysical, theory-based, theoretical, abstractive, suppositious

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1. empiricaladjective

   Synonyms:
   experimental, experiential, from experience (as distinguished from inference or reasoning)

2. empiricaladjective

   Synonyms:
   charlatanic, quackish

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1. List of paraphrases for "empirical":

   anecdotal, experimental, evidence-based, pilot

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1. James Clapper:

   I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump Jr. campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election, that's not to say that there weren't concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence. ... But I do not recall any instance where I had direct evidence of the content of these meetings. It's just the frequency and prevalence of them was of concern.

2. Karen Worcester:

   Our view is that if you want to put a Christmas wreath on a veteran's grave, that's fine. But then you must first request that, or you make sure that, in this case, Wreaths Across America has absolute empirical and express approval to do it.

3. Michael Hasenstab:

   The liquidity in the local markets has improved, not decreased, so this fear over liquidity in many cases is a little overblown and not consistent with the empirical evidence we've seen.

4. Wayne Koff:

   In the case of HIV, the old empirical approach isn't going to work.

5. Michael Caldwell:

   This research revolutionizes our understanding of the jugal bone in snake and non-snake lizards, after 160 years of getting it wrong, this paper corrects this very important feature based not on guesswork, but on empirical evidence.