Antonyms for empirical
ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəlem·pir·i·cal

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1. empiricaladjective

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

   Synonyms:
   empiric

2. empiricaladjective

   Pertaining to or based on experience.

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

   Synonyms:
   empiric

3. empiricaladjective

   Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

   Synonyms:
   empiric

4. empiricaladjective

   Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.

   Synonyms:
   empiric

   Antonyms:
   nonempirical

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. empirical

   Antonyms:
   scientific, regular, inductive, uniform, constant

   Synonyms:
   experimental, tentative, quackish

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1. empirical, empiricadjective

   derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

   "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known"

   Antonyms:
   supposititious, divinatory, abstractive, hypothetic, a priori, theoretical, suppositional, suppositious, metaphysical, theoretic, supposed, conjectural, speculative, theory-based, hypothetical, notional

   Synonyms:
   empiric

2. empiric, empiricaladjective

   relying on medical quackery

   "empiric treatment"

   Antonyms:
   a priori, hypothetic, theoretic, divinatory, speculative, supposititious, conjectural, suppositional, supposed, hypothetical, notional, metaphysical, theory-based, theoretical, abstractive, suppositious

   Synonyms:
   empiric

How to use empirical in a sentence?

1. Chief Actuary Jean-Claude Menard:

   The empirical evidence is telling us that stocks are one of the most volatile investments. The less volatile are money market instruments, but at the same the returns are very low.

2. Kedar Joshi:

   The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

3. Aaron David Miller:

   MBS believes President Donald Trump has President Donald Trump back. There's not a shred of empirical evidence to suggest that President Donald Trump doesn't.

4. Amit Kumar:

   We now have empirical evidence that that's indeed the case, people are excited when they're looking forward to the satisfaction they'll get from purchases like vacations.

5. Michael Hasenstab:

   The liquidity in the local markets has improved, not decreased, so this fear over liquidity in many cases is a little overblown and not consistent with the empirical evidence we've seen.

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