dialectical
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Definition of dialectical
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
“Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.”
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adj
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Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
“Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.”
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Synonym of dialectal (“of or pertaining to a dialect”).
“For I, and no doubt You, have long obſerved, that thoſe Dialectical ſubtleties, that the Schoolmen too often employ about Phyſiological Myſteries, are vvont much more to declare the vvit of him that uſes them, then increaſe the knovvledge or remove the doubts of ſober lovers of truth.”
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Etymology
From Latin dialecticus + -al. By surface analysis, dialectic + -al or dialect + -ical.
Words you can make from dialectical
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19 words6-letter words
39 words- ACIDIC 11 pts
- CICADA 11 pts
- TICCED 11 pts
- ACETIC 10 pts
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- CAECAL 10 pts
- CELIAC 10 pts
- CICALA 10 pts
- CICALE 10 pts
- CILICE 10 pts
- CLITIC 10 pts
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- DETAIL 7 pts
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- LILTED 7 pts
- TAILED 7 pts
- TILLED 7 pts
- ILLITE 6 pts
- TAILLE 6 pts
- TELIAL 6 pts
5-letter words
45 words- CACTI 9 pts
- CAECA 9 pts
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- ICTIC 9 pts
- ACTED 8 pts
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- ACETA 7 pts
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- AALII 5 pts
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4-letter words
73 words- CACA 8 pts
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- TACE 6 pts
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- TALL 4 pts
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- TELA 4 pts
- TELL 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
- TILL 4 pts
3-letter words
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