evidential

[ ev-i-den-shuhl ]

/ ˌɛv ɪˈdɛn ʃəl /

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adjective

noting, pertaining to, serving as, or based on evidence.

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Origin of evidential

1600–10; <Latin ēvidenti(a) (see evidence) + -al¹

OTHER WORDS FROM evidential

ev·i·den·tial·ly, adverbnon·ev·i·den·tial, adjectiveun·ev·i·den·tial, adjective

Words nearby evidential

evict, evictee, eviction, evidence, evident, evidential, evidentiary, evidently, evil, evildoer, evil eye

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How to use evidential in a sentence

When detectives discovered that the message was “a pure coincidence … of no evidential value,” reporters refused to believe them.
Did Reporters From News of the World Impede a British Police Investigation?|Charlotte Edwardes|January 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Of all the apparent coincidences I have noticed between Shakspere's previous plays and the essays, none has any evidential value.
Montaigne and Shakspere|John M. Robertson
Each was wedded to a system of thought according to which signs on earth were of no evidential value.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew|John Monro Gibson
They are as evidential of manufacture or of creation or of any other process of intelligent mind.
The Other Side of Evolution|Alexander Patterson

Such an occurrence can be evidential only when the hair changes color demonstrably in the case of a witness.
Criminal Psychology|Hans Gross
(a) Logic is, according to Schiel the science of evidence—not of finding evidence but of rendering evidence evidential.
Criminal Psychology|Hans Gross

British Dictionary definitions for evidential

evidential

/ (ˌɛvɪˈdɛnʃəl) /

adjective

relating to, serving as, or based on evidence

Derived forms of evidential

evidentially, adverb

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