Definitions for empirics

empirics em·pir·ic

Spelling: [em-pir-ik]
IPA: /ɛmˈpɪr ɪk/

Empirics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in empirics (ceiimprs).

Definitions for empirics

noun

  1. a person who follows an empirical method.
  2. a quack; charlatan.

adjective

  1. empirical.

Origin of empirics

1520-30; Latin empīricus Greek empeirikós experienced, equivalent to em- em-2 + peir- (stem of peirân to attempt) + -ikos

Examples for empirics

Here is no lack of votaries of the practical, of experimentalists, of empirics.

Steele has transmitted to us some capital anecdotes of the empirics of his day.

The empirics declare that they know nothing; because, as soon as looked at, they may change.

And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me to the empirics that slaughter them?

They had accomplished much, but it was the work mainly of empirics.

We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.

And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me, to the empirics that slaughter them?

There are many thousands of persons who believe this stuff, and endanger their lives and health by trusting to these empirics.

Everything was conjecture, and that which rested on the evidence of facts was by the empirics received with enthusiasm.

He held his peace till the empirics had departed and the dwarf had covered the patient and shaken his pillows.

Word Value for empirics
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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