philosophical

English

Alternative forms

• philosophicall, phylosophicall (obsolete)
• phylosophical (nonstandard)

Etymology

From philosophy +‎ -ical, from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía, “love of knowledge, scientific learning”). Displaced native Old English ūþwitlīċ.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪl.əˈsɒf.ɪ.kl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌfɪl.əˈsɑ.fɪ.kl̩/

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• Hyphenation: phi‧lo‧soph‧i‧cal

Adjective

philosophical (comparative more philosophical, superlative most philosophical)

1. Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
   • 2019 November 11, Ashley Strickland, “What makes a planet potentially habitable”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm,” said Howard Chen, study author and Ph.D candidate at Northwestern University.

2. Rational; analytic or critically minded; thoughtful.
   • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Sphinx”, in Arthur's Ladies Magazine:

     His richly philosophical intellect was not at any time affected by unrealities.

3. Detached, calm, stoic.
   • 1911, Hector Hugh Munro, The Schartz-Metterklume Method:

     She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference.

Synonyms

• philosophic

Antonyms

• nonphilosophical

Derived terms

• antiphilosophical
• aphilosophical
• biophilosophical
• cyberphilosophical
• doctrine of philosophical necessity
• ecophilosophical
• ethnophilosophical
• extraphilosophical
• geophilosophical
• historicophilosophical
• historiophilosophical
• intraphilosophical
• metaphilosophical
• musicophilosophical
• neurophilosophical
• nonphilosophical
• overphilosophical
• philosophical anarchism
• philosophical anarchist
• philosophical furnace
• philosophicality
• philosophically
• philosophical materialism
• philosophical method
• philosophicalness
• philosophical sin
• philosophical wool
• philosophical zombie
• physicophilosophical
• politicophilosophical
• postphilosophical
• prephilosophical
• pseudophilosophical
• psychophilosophical
• psycho-socio-philosophical
• religiophilosophical
• scientifico-philosophical
• semiphilosophical
• sociophilosophical
• unphilosophical
• wax philosophical

Translations

of or pertaining to philosophy

• Arabic: فَلْسَفِيّ (falsafiyy)
• Asturian: filosóficu
• Belarusian: філасо́фскі (filasófski)
• Catalan: filosòfic (ca)
• Czech: filozofický (cs)
• Danish: filosofisk
• Dutch: wijsgerig (nl), filosofisch (nl)
• Esperanto: filozofia
• Finnish: filosofinen (fi)
• Galician: filosófico (gl)
• Georgian: ფილოსოფიური (pilosopiuri)
• German: philosophisch (de)
• Greek: φιλοσοφικός (el) (filosofikós)
• Hungarian: filozófiai (hu)
• Interlingua: philosophic
• Italian: filosofico (it)
• Kazakh: философиялық (filosofiälyq), пәлсапалық (pälsapalyq)
• Latvian: filozofisks
• Macedonian: филосо́фски (filosófski), филозо́фски (filozófski)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: filosofisk (no)

  Nynorsk: filosofisk

• Occitan: filosofic (oc)
• Old English: ūþwitlīċ
• Polish: filozoficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: filosófico (pt)
• Romanian: filozofic (ro)
• Russian: филосо́фский (ru) (filosófskij)
• Spanish: filosófico (es), filosofal
• Swedish: filosofisk (sv)
• Tagalog: batnayanin, batnayin
• Ukrainian: філосо́фський (uk) (filosófsʹkyj), філософі́чний (filosofíčnyj)
• Volapük: filosopik (vo)

rational, analytic

• Czech: rozumový (cs)
• Greek: φιλοσοφικός (el) (filosofikós)
• Portuguese: filosófico (pt)

detached, calm, stoic

• Hungarian: filozofikus (hu), higgadt (hu)

Further reading

• philosophical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia