categorical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin catēgoricus + -al.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌkætəˈɡɔɹɪk(ə)l/
Adjective[edit]
categorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)
- Absolute; having no exception.
- 1856, Robert Gordon Latham, Logic in the Application to Language[1]:
- We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional).
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 74:
- Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
- Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.
Synonyms[edit]
- (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional, categorial
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of “absolute; having no exception”): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative
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Translations[edit]
absolute; having no exception
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of, pertaining to, or using categories
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Noun[edit]
categorical (plural categoricals)