Basing his conclusion of guilt on deductive reasoning, Sherlock Holmes ratted out his own partner, Watson.
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Deductive
Synonyms for "deductive" (87 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Adjective(5 words)
Noun(3 words)
analytic resultaxiomatic systemclassical thought
Strong matches (26)
Noun(7 words)
deduction oriented taskformal logicianformal reasoningitalian teoricologic basedlogic devicelogic game
Adjective(7 words)
formal argumentimplied meaning inferenceinferential analysisinferential findinginferential reasoninginferential understandinglogical
Related words (43)
Adjective(17 words)
logical conclusionlogical consequencelogical demonstrationlogical frameworklogical methodmathematical inquirymathematical knowledgemathematical logicsmathematical problemmathematical rulereasonedrigoroustheoreticaltheoretical concepttheoretical mathematicstheoretical microbiologytheoretical work
Noun(13 words)
logical propositionsmath curriculum subjectmath termsmathematical descriptormathematical groupmathematical termmathematics vocabularymore mathematicalmost top-downnatural deductionrationalistrigorous physicssyllogistic reasoning
Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesanalytic methodformal methodlogical reasoningmathematical reasoning
More specific
4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesdeductive argumentdeductive frameworkdeductive logicdeductive methoddeductive reasoningdeductive validity
Inflections
2 entriesmore deductivemost deductive
Derivations
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 14 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- արտածական adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
- դեդուկտիվ adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Catalan
1 entries- deductiu adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 推理的 adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
- 推論的 /推论的 adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Finnish
1 entries- deduktiivinen adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
French
1 entries- déductif adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Greek
1 entries- παραγωγικός adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Hindi
2 entries- निगमनिक adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
- वियोजक adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Indonesian
1 entries- deduktif adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Italian
1 entries- deduttivo adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Polish
1 entries- dedukcyjny adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Russian
1 entries- дедукти́вный adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Spanish
1 entries- deductivo adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Turkish
1 entries- çıkarım adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Urdu
1 entries- استخراجی adj (of, pertaining to, or based on deduction)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Sherlock Holmes retained his deductive abilities because of, rather than in spite of, the absolute cartloads of cocaine he shoved up his nose every day.
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deductive system of semantics
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