empirical

adj.根据观察或经验的

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
empirical (adjective)
1.
originating in or based on observation or experience - empirical data
2.
relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory - an empirical basis for the theory
3.
capable of being or disproved by observation or experiment - verified empirical laws
4.
of or relating to - empiricism
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
empirical (adjective)
1.
based on observation or experience
SYNONYMS:
existential, experiential, experimental, objective, observational
RELATED WORDS:
actual, factual, genuine, hard, material, real; accepted, established, tried, tried-and-true; indisputable, undeniable; demonstrable, provable, verifiable
NEAR ANTONYMS:
conjectural, hypothetical, speculative; unproven, unsubstantiated; metaphysical, transcendentalist, visionary
nonempirical, theoretical ( theoretic), unempirical
empirical (adjective)
2.
capable of being proven as true or real
SYNONYMS:
checkable, confirmable, demonstrable, empirical ( empiric), provable, supportable, sustainable
RELATED WORDS:
certifiable, documentable, well-founded; defensible, excusable, justifiable, vindicable, warrantable; alleged, assumed, conjectured, guessed, presumed, surmised, suspected
NEAR ANTONYMS:
debatable, disprovable, disputable, refutable
indemonstrable, insupportable, unprovable, unsupportable, unsustainable, unverifiable
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