adjective · academic
empirical
Band 6-7task2speaking
based on observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic
Examples
“Empirical evidence from surveys supports the hypothesis.”
“Many studies adopt an empirical approach to test the theory.”
“Part 3: How important is empirical data in policymaking?”
Band 8 sentence
“The paper provides empirical support for the proposed model by analysing a large dataset across multiple countries.”
Collocations
- empirical evidence
- empirical study
- empirical data
Word family
empirically adverbempiricism noun
Common mistakes
empirical = empiricaly (viết sai)→empirical
Say it for a higher band
5observational→6experimental→7+empirical
Synonyms
observational
experimental
Easily confused
experimental
“The experimental group followed a protocol, while empirical data came from real-world observations.”
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