evidential

[ ev-i-den-shuhl ]

adjective

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

evidential

/ ˌɛvɪˈdɛnʃəl /

adjective

1. relating to, serving as, or based on evidence

Derived Forms

• ˌeviˈdentially, adverb

Other Words From

• evi·dential·ly adverb
• nonev·i·dential adjective
• unev·i·dential adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of evidential¹

1600–10; < Latin ēvidenti ( a ) ( evidence ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

When detectives discovered that the message was “a pure coincidence … of no evidential value,” reporters refused to believe them.

From The Daily Beast

Of all the apparent coincidences I have noticed between Shakspere's previous plays and the essays, none has any evidential value.

From Project Gutenberg

Each was wedded to a system of thought according to which signs on earth were of no evidential value.

From Project Gutenberg

They are as evidential of manufacture or of creation or of any other process of intelligent mind.

From Project Gutenberg

Such an occurrence can be evidential only when the hair changes color demonstrably in the case of a witness.

From Project Gutenberg

(a) Logic is, according to Schiel the science of evidence—not of finding evidence but of rendering evidence evidential.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• emblematic
• ominous
• suggestive
• symbolic
• symptomatic