Usually means: Based on observation or experience.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. empirical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. empirical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. empirical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. empirical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. empirical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Empirical, empirical: Wordnik
  7. empirical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. empirical: Wiktionary
  9. empirical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. empirical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. empirical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. empirical: Dictionary.com
  13. empirical: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. empirical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Empirical (jazz band), Empirical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Empirical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. empirical: Rhymezone
  18. Empirical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. empirical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. empirical: Free Dictionary
  21. empirical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. empirical: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. empirical: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. empirical: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. empirical: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. empirical: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  3. empirical: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. empirical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Empirical: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. empirical: Medical dictionary
  5. Empirical: Drug Medical Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. empirical: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. empirical: Evolution Glossary
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. empirical: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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▸ adjective:  Pertaining to or based on experience (often, in contrast with having a basis in theoretical explanation).
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
▸ adjective:  (philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.

Similar:
existential, observational, experimental, experiential, a posteriori, semiempirical, model, confirmable, verifiable, test, more...

Opposite:
theoretical, speculative, abstract, hypothetical, conjectural

Types:
quantitative, qualitative, experimental, observational, historical, descriptive, explanatory, more...

Phrases:
empirical evidence, empirical research, empirical findings, empirical science, empirical formula, more...

Adjectives:
more, theoretical, semi, less, large, present, great, non, linguistics, second, mechanistic


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Similar:
existential, observational, experimental, experiential, a posteriori, semiempirical, model, confirmable, verifiable, test, more...

Opposite:
theoretical, speculative, abstract, hypothetical, conjectural

Types:
quantitative, qualitative, experimental, observational, historical, descriptive, explanatory, more...

Phrases:
empirical evidence, empirical research, empirical findings, empirical science, empirical formula, empirical observation, empirical question, empirical content, empirical rule, empirical formulas, more...

Adjectives:
more, theoretical, semi, less, large, present, great, non, linguistics, second, mechanistic



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