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. 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.

2. Kun Guo:

   This is the first empirical experiment that will show dogs can integrate visual and oratory inputs to understand or differentiate human emotion as dog emotion.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Kedar Joshi:

   The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.