Meaning & use
Atheoretical
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Not based on or concerned with theory; lacking a theoretical framework.
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Critics dismissed the report as atheoretical, since it presented data without any explanatory model.
Her research method was deliberately atheoretical, focused purely on observation.
A note on using this word
Built from the privative prefix "a-" plus "theoretical," it is common in academic critique of purely descriptive research.
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empiricalunsystematic
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