Contextualizebeta

empirically

adv

Etymology

From empirical + -ly.

Definitions

  1. Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.

    • I have no idea why this works, but empirically, it works.

  2. Based on data and evidence gathered in the real world.

    • We need to test this idea empirically instead of just speculating about it.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonempirically, semiempirically, unempirically

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for empirically. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA