evidential.

1. Relating to evidence or its use in establishing a claim.

2. Indicating how a speaker obtained the information being expressed.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• evidential basis
• evidential weight

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The argument lacked an adequate evidential basis.

She distinguished rhetorical force from evidential weight.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a relation or classification; comparisons require a meaningful context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.