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

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1. empiricaladjective

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

   Synonyms:
   empiric

2. empiricaladjective

   Pertaining to or based on experience.

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

   Synonyms:
   empiric

3. empiricaladjective

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

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

   Synonyms:
   empiric

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

   Antonyms:
   scientific, regular, inductive, uniform, constant

   Synonyms:
   experimental, tentative, quackish

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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"

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

   Synonyms:
   empiric

2. empiric, empiricaladjective

   relying on medical quackery

   "empiric treatment"

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

   Synonyms:
   empiric

How to use empirical in a sentence?

1. Aaron David Miller:

   MBS believes President Donald Trump has President Donald Trump back. There's not a shred of empirical evidence to suggest that President Donald Trump doesn't.

2. Deshawn Yeldell:

   One has to Journey within the boundaries of paradise fading into a world of unconsciousness only if you’re thirsting to inherit this empirical knowledge not too greater and not too lesser, -MillYentei

3. Günter Bechly:

   If a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.

4. 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.

5. Lidia Gonzalez:

   Although with Lidia Gonzalez departure a wealth of especially valuable empirical knowledge is lost in linguistic terms, the possibility of rescuing and systematizing the language remain open.

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