Definitions for empirical

empirical em·pir·i·cal

Spelling: [em-pir-i-kuh l]
IPA: /ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəl/

Empirical is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 482 anagrams from letters in empirical (aceiilmpr).

Definitions for empirical

adjective

  1. derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
  2. depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, especially as in medicine.
  3. provable or verifiable by experience or experiment.

Origin of empirical

First recorded in 1560-70; empiric + -al1

Examples for empirical

There is after all some justification for Guetta's criticism of empirical instruction.

No empirical data support his claim that the birth of a baby with Down syndrome makes the world—or the baby—unhappier.

In all, Schwitzgebel thinks that this study has been an important step forward in empirical research of morality.

The method from that time on is about of the type described as empirical.

That is a question of faith and empirical evidence with which we are not here concerned.

Overall, the weight of the empirical evidence supports these essentially conservative arguments for the minimum wage.

They would have shrunk from the empirical freedom that results from a little beer.

empirical teaching based on the singer's sensations is of no avail.

Morris thinks this question is an empirical one, and his new book proposes an answer that he finds astonishing.

How do archaeologists wrap an empirical mind around capturing history?

Word Value for empirical
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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