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Definition: Evidential |
EvidentialAdjective1. Serving as or based on evidence; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "evidential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonym: EvidentialSynonym: evidentiary (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Evidential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.89% of the time. "Evidential" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.89% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "evidential": be evidential of ♦ evidential value. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "evidential": probative-evidential. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alcohol breath evidential test | 11 |
breath evidential test | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "evidential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dëshmues (indicative, probative, testimonial). (various references) | |
Arabic | ظاهر (apparent, conspicuous, evident, manifest, obvious, outstanding, patent, seeming, visible). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | убедителен (convincing, demonstrative, eloquent, fair-spoken, forcible, persuasive, potent, seductive, solid, suasive, telling, vigorous, weighty), основан на показания, основан на доказателства, доказателствен (documentary, probative). (various references) | |
Czech | dokazující (evincive). (various references) | |
Danish | evidensoplevelse (evidential experience), bevisræsonnering (evidential reasoning), beviskraftig slutningssystem (evidential reasoning system). (various references) | |
Dutch | redeneren op basis van meetgegevens (evidential reasoning). (various references) | |
Finnish | näyttöön pohjautuva todistelu (evidential reasoning). (various references) | |
French | évident (evident, self evident). (various references) | |
German | erwiesenermaßen (as has been proved). (various references) | |
Greek | αποδεικτικόσ (demonstrative, substantiative). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bizonyítékokon alapuló. (various references) | |
Italian | probatorio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evidentialay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | evidencial (evidentiary), indicativo (denotative, distinguish, evincive, indicative, indicatory, significative, symptomatic), comprobatório. (various references) | |
Romanian | doveditor (conclusive, convincing, demonstrative, sustaining), care stã ca mãrturie. (various references) | |
Russian | доказательный (evincive, probative). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dokazni (proof). (various references) | |
Spanish | probatorio (evidentiary, probative, probatory). (various references) | |
Swedish | bevisnings-, bevis-. (various references) | |
Turkish | ortada (apparent, between, betwixt, clear, evident, evidentiary, exposed, in between, in the middle, obvious), kanıta dayanan (evidentiary), inandırıcı (cogent, colorable, conclusive, convincing, credible, demonstrative, evidentiary, likely, persuasive, potent, vivid), delile ait (evidentiary), apaçık (as plain as a pikestaff, beyond dispute, clearly, conspicuous, crying, evident, evidentiary, evidently, glaring, gross, incontrovertible, manifest, obvious, obviously, openly, self evident, transparent, very clear, wide open, without dispute), aşikâr (apparent, clear, distinct, evident, evidentiary, explicit, flagrant, manifest, overt, patent, perspicuous, unconcealed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | очевидний (apparent, demonstrable, direct, downright, evident, gross, manifest, necessary, obvious, open, ostensible, overt, palpable, plain, plum, pronounced, questionless, self evident, transparent, uncontested, unmistakable, utter), доказовий (arguable, argumentative, demonstrable, demonstrative, evidentiary, probative, probatory, provable, proveable, testimonial). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chứng cớ (evidence, proof, testimony, witness), chứng (proof). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "evidential": evidentially. (additional references) | |
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"Evidential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eridania, evidentia, unidentical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-l-n-t-v" | |
-2 letters: dateline, dilative, divalent, entailed, ideative, lenitive, levanted, lineated, vanitied. | |
-3 letters: aliened, anviled, delaine, deviant, deviate, elative, evident, inedita, invalid, invital, invited, invitee, latened, lineate, livened, naivete, valeted, veinlet, ventail. | |
-4 letters: advent, aedile, aedine, alevin, alined, alvine, aneled, anteed, avidin, dative, delate, denial, dental, dentil, detail, detain, devein, dilate, divine, elated, endite, endive, entail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-l-n-t-v" | |
+1 letter: delineative. | |
+2 letters: evidentially. | |
+4 letters: valetudinaries. | |
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