ScienceAcademic Word List
empirical
adjective
Definition
Based on observation or experiment rather than theory or pure logic.
In a sentence
“The study provided empirical evidence that the drug reduced infection rates.”
Synonyms
experimentalevidence-baseddata-driven
Common collocations
- empirical evidence
- empirical research
- empirical data
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