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dialectical

di·a·lec·ti·cal
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [dahy-uh-lek-ti-kuh l]
    • /ˌdaɪ əˈlɛk tɪ kəl/
    • /ˌdaɪ.əˈlek.tɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [dahy-uh-lek-ti-kuh l]
    • /ˌdaɪ əˈlɛk tɪ kəl/

Definitions of dialectical word

  • adjective dialectical In philosophy, Dialectical is used to describe situations, theories, and methods which depend on resolving opposing factors. 3
  • adjective dialectical of or relating to dialectic or dialectics 3
  • adjective dialectical of or using dialectic 3
  • adjective dialectical of or characteristic of a dialect; dialectal 3
  • abbreviation DIALECTICAL dialectic. 1
  • adjective dialectical of or characteristic of a dialect; dialectal. 1
See all 12 definitions of dialectical

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Origin of dialectical

First appearance:

before 1520
One of the 28% oldest English words
First recorded in 1520-30; dialectic + -al1

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Parts of speech for Dialectical

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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dialectical popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for dialectical

adj dialectical

  • argumentative — Someone who is argumentative is always ready to disagree or start quarrelling with other people.
  • controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
  • persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • analytic — Analytic means the same as analytical.
  • polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.

adjective dialectical

  • logical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • judicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
  • legal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
  • regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
All 24 Synonyms of dialectical

Antonyms for dialectical

adj dialectical

  • illogical — not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
  • irrational — without the faculty of reason; deprived of reason.
All 2 Antonyms of dialectical

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Related words

  • dialectical materialism

    the economic, political, and philosophical system of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that combines traditional materialism and Hegelian dialectic

  • historical materialism

    (in Marxist theory) the doctrine that all forms of social thought, as art or philosophy, and institutions, as the family or the state, develop as a superstructure founded on an economic base; that they reflect the character of economic relations and are altered or modified as a result of class struggles; that each ruling economic class produces the class that will destroy or replace it; and that dialectical necessity requires the eventual withering away of the state and the establishment of a classless society: the body of theory, in dialectical materialism, dealing with historical process and social causation.

  • dial

    A dial is the part of a machine or instrument such as a clock or watch which shows you the time or a measurement that has been recorded.

  • dialectical theology

    a form of neoorthodox theology emphasizing the infinite tensions, paradoxes, and basic ambiguities inherent in Christian existence, and holding, against rationalism, that God is unknowable to humans except through divine grace and revelation.

  • neoorthodoxy

    a movement in Protestant theology, beginning after World War I, stressing the absolute sovereignty of God and chiefly characterized by a reaction against liberal theology and a reaffirmation of certain doctrines of the Reformation.
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