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socratic

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/səˈkɹatɪk/
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/səˈkɹatɪk/ · /səˈkɹætɪk/

Definition of socratic

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
    “His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
    “His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.”
  2. (not-comparable, specifically)Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
    “a Socratic question”

noun

  1. A proponent of the philosophy or methods of Socrates.

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Etymology

From Latin Sōcratic(us), from Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), from Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, “Socrates”). By surface analysis, Socrat(es) + -ic.

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