forensic

About 2.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.

   forensic analysis; forensic examination; forensic evidence; forensic investigation; forensic pathologist

2. adjective Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.
3. adjective Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.
4. adjective Relating to forms of disability associated with criminal risk.

   a forensic learning disability

5. adjective Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.

Similar words

rhetorical coroner statutory examiner legal judiciary judicial justice police science

Often followed by

science medicine sci psychiatry sciences evidence psychology and scientists pathologist

Word family

forensically forensics