evidentiary

American  

[ev-i-den-shuh-ree] / ˌɛv ɪˈdɛn ʃə ri /

adjective

1. evidential.

2. Law. pertaining to or constituting evidence.

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Other Word Forms

• nonevidentiary adjective

Etymology

Origin of evidentiary

1800–10; < Latin ēvidenti ( a ) evidence + -ary

Example Sentences

The agency’s mindset remains: evidentiary maximalism detached from clinical reality, indifference to patient urgency, and hostility to the flexibility Congress intended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

He dismissed statements from prosecution witnesses as "assumption layered upon hearsay" and urged the judging panel to give them "negligible evidentiary weight".

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

It was a nonsense statement from an evidentiary point of view, but they took it, and here’s your puppy prison.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

Jacobs also explained why the military has not attempted to detain or prosecute survivors, “because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.”

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

Meanwhile, the object of the hunt sits squarely in the middle of the evidentiary trail, so obvious that it is ignored.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis