philosophical

philosophical

English

Alternative forms

• philosophicall (obsolete)
• phylosophical (nonstandard)
• phylosophicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From philosophy +‎ -ical, from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía, “love of knowledge, scientific learning”)

Adjective

philosophical (comparative more philosophical, superlative most philosophical)

1. Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
2. Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful.
   • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Sphinx" in Arthur's Ladies Magazine,

     His richly philosophical intellect was not at any time affected by unrealities.

3. Detached, calm, stoic.
   • 1911, Hector Hugh Munro, "The Schartz-Metterklume Method,"

     She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference.

Synonyms

• philosophic

Antonyms

• nonphilosophical

Derived terms

• antiphilosophical
• aphilosophical
• cyberphilosophical
• ecophilosophical
• ethnophilosophical
• extraphilosophical
• geophilosophical
• historicophilosophical
• historiophilosophical
• metaphilosophical
• neurophilosophical
• nonphilosophical
• philosophical anarchism
• philosophical anarchist
• philosophical furnace
• philosophically
• philosophical method
• philosophicalness
• postphilosophical
• pseudophilosophical
• psychophilosophical
• religiophilosophical
• unphilosophical

 

Translations

of or pertaining to philosophy

Arabic: فَلْسَفِيّ‎ (falsafiyy) Asturian: filosóficu Catalan: filosòfic (ca) Czech: filozofický (cs) m Dutch: wijsgerig, filosofisch (nl) Esperanto: filozofia Finnish: filosofinen (fi) Galician: filosófico German: philosophisch (de) Greek: φιλοσοφικός (el) m (filosofikós) Interlingua: philosophic

Italian: filosofico (it) Latvian: filozofisks Macedonian: философски m (filosófski), филозофски m (filozófski) Old English: ūþwitlīċ Polish: filozoficzny (pl) Portuguese: filosófico (pt) Romanian: filozofic (ro) Russian: филосо́фский (ru) (filosófskij) Spanish: filosófico (es) m Tagalog: batnayanin, batnayin Volapük: filosopik (vo)

rational, analytic

Czech: rozumový (cs) m Greek: φιλοσοφική (el) f (filosofikí), φιλοσοφικός (el) m (filosofikós)

Portuguese: filosófico (pt)

detached, calm, stoic

Further reading

• philosophical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia