logically

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English logical

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English logically

From logical + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪˌkli/

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• Rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkli

Adverb

logically (comparative more logically, superlative most logically)

1. In a logical manner, with logic.
   • 1986, Roderick M. Chisholm, “Self-Profile”, in Radu J. Bogdan, editor, Profiles: Roderick M. Chisholm, Springer, page 30:

     A world, then, is a state of affairs W of this sort: For every state of affairs p, either W logically implies p or W logically implies the negation of p, and there is no state of affairs q such that W logically implies both q and the negation of q.

Antonyms

• illogically

Translations

in a logical manner

• Albanian: logjikisht (sq)
• Armenian: տրամաբանորեն (hy) (tramabanoren)
• Catalan: lògicament (ca)
• Czech: logicky (cs)
• Finnish: loogisesti (fi)
• French: logiquement (fr)
• Galician: loxicamente
• German: logischerweise (de), logisch (de), sachlogisch (de)
• Greek: λογικά (el) (logiká)
• Hungarian: logikusan (hu), észszerűen (hu)
• Italian: logicamente (it), a rigor di logica
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: logisk (no)

  Nynorsk: logisk

• Polish: logicznie (pl)
• Portuguese: logicamente (pt)
• Russian: логи́чески (ru) (logíčeski), логи́чно (ru) (logíčno)
• Serbo-Croatian: lògično (sh)
• Spanish: lógicamente (es)
• Ukrainian: логі́чно (lohíčno)