I don't want to be too categorical!
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Categorical
//ˌkætəˈɡɒɹɪk(ə)l//
Synonyms for "categorical" (126 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Adjective(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (63)
flat outflat-outforthrightglobalhypotheticalimplicitinappealableindisputableinductiveinferentialmaieuticmysticalordinalout-and-outoutrightparticularpeculiarperemptoryperfectpoint-blank
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positiveroundsoriticalspecialspecificstraightstraight outstraight-outsubdivisionalsuresyllogisticsynthetictaxonomictotaltypaltypicalultimateunambiguousuncircumscribedunconditionedundoubtingunequivocalunhamperedunhesitatingunlimitedunmistakableunmitigatedunquestioningunreservedunrestrictedunwaivableutterwholewithout exceptionwithout reserve
Adjective(7 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
15 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- безусловен adj (absolute; having no exception)
- категоричен adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
- окончателен adj (absolute; having no exception)
Catalan
1 entries- categòric adj (absolute; having no exception)
Czech
1 entries- kategorický adj (absolute; having no exception)
Danish
1 entries- kategorisk adj (absolute; having no exception)
French
3 entries- catégoriel adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
- catégorielle adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
- catégorique adj (absolute; having no exception)
Georgian
1 entries- კატეგორიული adj (absolute; having no exception)
German
2 entries- kategorisch adj (absolute; having no exception)
- kategorisch adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
Hungarian
1 entries- kategorikus adj (absolute; having no exception)
Italian
2 entries- categoriale adj (absolute; having no exception)
- categoriale adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
Japanese
3 entries- 例外無き adj (absolute; having no exception)
- 分類上の adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
- 無条件の adj (absolute; having no exception)
Polish
1 entries- kategoryczny adj (absolute; having no exception)
Portuguese
3 entries- categórico adj (absolute; having no exception)
- categórico adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
- taxativo adj (absolute; having no exception)
Romanian
2 entries- categorial adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
- categoric adj (absolute; having no exception)
Russian
1 entries- категори́ческий adj (absolute; having no exception)
Spanish
2 entries- categórico adj (absolute; having no exception)
- tajante adj (absolute; having no exception)
Swedish
1 entries- kategorisk adj (absolute; having no exception)
Tagalog
1 entries- mulisipin adj (of, pertaining to, or using categories)
Ukrainian
1 entries- категори́чний adj (absolute; having no exception)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional).
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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