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

Other Word Forms

• evidentially adverb
• nonevidential adjective
• unevidential adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of evidential¹

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

Example Sentences

Harmonizing for Plant, is “one of the most nerve-racking and evidentially vulnerable parts of anything that I’ve ever done,” he admits.

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He was released on bail and a delay in producing evidential reports about some 1,100 indecent images meant he was not interviewed again until two years later.

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The Northumbria force said the case had been dropped due to "evidential difficulties" but inquiries into criminal damage outside the premises were ongoing.

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The senior Essex coroner, Lincoln Brookes, found "no evidential basis to consider this attack was possibly preventable so many years and imponderables later".

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However, last month the director of public prosecutions said "the case could no longer proceed to trial since the evidence no longer met the evidential test".

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