Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #977 of 1319

empirical (adj.)

based on observation

Examples

  • Empirical evidence.

Key rules

  • Empirical means based on observation or experiment
  • Empirical evidence, an empirical study
  • Empirically is the adverb
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