Meaning of EMPIRICAL

Pronunciation:			em'pirikul
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  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"
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	Synonyms:		a posteriori, confirmable, data-based, existential, experiential, experimental, falsifiable, model(a), observational, pilot(a), semiempirical, test(a), trial(a), trial-and-error, verifiable
	Antonyms:		theoretic, theoretical
Glossary
	Definition:		received through the senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste), either directly or through extensions.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, cut-and-try, Cyrenaic, eclectic, Eleatic, Epicurean, eudaemonistic, existential, experiential, experimental, factual, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, heuristic, hit-or-miss, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, Megarian, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, observed, panlogistical, pantheistic, pilot, positivist, positivistic, practical, pragmatic, pragmatist, probationary, probative, probatory, proving, provisional, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, Stoic, syncretistic, tentative, test, testing, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, trial, trial-and-error, trying, utilitarian, verificatory, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic