evidential
Serving as proof
Evidential means serving as or relating to evidence: evidential support for a theory, evidential standards in court.
The word appears most often in legal and academic contexts, where it describes material that can be used to establish facts.
Evidentiary is more common in American legal usage, but evidential remains standard in British English and general scholarly writing.
Offering help and reassurance
- substantiatingProving something true
- confirmingEstablishing truth of something
- validatingConfirming truth or accuracy
- affirmingDeclaring something true
reinforcing · bolstering · attesting · verifying · authenticating · backing · upholding · certifying
Unverified secondhand information
- sensoryRelated to perception
- inferentialDerived through reasoning
- witnessedSaw firsthand
- firsthandWithout intermediary
secondhand · grammatical · marker · particle · suffix · epistemic · direct · indirect
Hinting at impropriety
- symptomaticShowing signs of disease
- signifyingExpressing or conveying meaning
- pointingDirecting attention somewhere
- demonstrativeOpenly showing emotions
revealing · telling · meaningful · illustrative · representative · expressive · hinting · implying
Stored data or albums
- archivesStored historical documents
- exhibitsDisplays for viewing
- transcriptsWritten versions of speech
- affidavitsSworn written legal statements
depositions · certificates · logs · registers · dossiers · files · testimony · documentation
Hereditary code molecule
- fingerprintsRidge patterns identifying individuals
- ballisticsProjectile motion science
- bloodstainsDried hemoglobin discolorations
- autopsyMedical examination after death
toxicology · fibers · serology · biometrics · entomology · odontology · pathology · specimen
supportive
Offering help and reassurance
- substantiatingProving something true
- confirmingEstablishing truth of something
- validatingConfirming truth or accuracy
affirming · reinforcing · bolstering · attesting · verifying · authenticating · backing · upholding · certifying · establishing
hearsay
Unverified secondhand information
- sensoryRelated to perception
- inferentialDerived through reasoning
- witnessedSaw firsthand
firsthand · secondhand · grammatical · marker · particle · suffix · epistemic · direct · indirect
suggestive
Hinting at impropriety
- symptomaticShowing signs of disease
- signifyingExpressing or conveying meaning
- pointingDirecting attention somewhere
demonstrative · revealing · telling · meaningful · illustrative · representative · expressive · hinting · implying · probative
records
Stored data or albums
- archivesStored historical documents
- exhibitsDisplays for viewing
- transcriptsWritten versions of speech
affidavits · depositions · certificates · logs · registers · dossiers · files · testimony · documentation · manifests
DNA
Hereditary code molecule
- fingerprintsRidge patterns identifying individuals
- ballisticsProjectile motion science
- bloodstainsDried hemoglobin discolorations
autopsy · toxicology · fibers · serology · biometrics · entomology · odontology · pathology · specimen · swab
- modalitycan, modals, could, may, might
- verb moodsindicative, subjunctive, imperative, conditional, potential
- grammardeclension, pronouns, adjectives, conjugation, nouns
- linguisticslinguistics, phoneme, phonemes, morpheme, morphemes
evidentialspeculative
Based on conjecture
conjectural · hypothetical · unsubstantiated · unsupported · baseless
evidentialhearsay
Unverified secondhand information
inferential · assumptive · suppositional · speculative · uncertain
evidentialinadmissible
Not allowed as evidence
immaterial · irrelevant · hearsay · insignificant · prejudicial