philosophical

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From philosophy +‎ -ical, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía, “love of knowledge, scientific learning”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɪləˈsɑfɪkl̩/
• IPA^(key): /ˌfɪləˈsɒfɪkl̩/
• Hyphenation: phi‧lo‧soph‧i‧cal

Adjective

philosophical (comparative more philosophical, superlative most philosophical)

1. Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
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
• cyberphilosophical
• ecophilosophical
• ethnophilosophical
• extraphilosophical
• geophilosophical
• historicophilosophical
• historiophilosophical
• metaphilosophical
• neurophilosophical
• nonphilosophical
• philosophical anarchism
• philosophical anarchist
• philosophical furnace
• philosophically
• philosophical method
• philosophicalness
• postphilosophical
• pseudophilosophical
• psychophilosophical
• religiophilosophical
• unphilosophical

 

Translations

of or pertaining to philosophy

• Arabic: فَلْسَفِيّ (falsafiyy)
• Asturian: filosóficu
• Catalan: filosòfic (ca)
• Czech: filozofický (cs) m
• Dutch: wijsgerig (nl), filosofisch (nl)
• Esperanto: filozofia
• Finnish: filosofinen (fi)
• Galician: filosófico
• German: philosophisch (de)
• Greek: φιλοσοφικός (el) m (filosofikós)
• Interlingua: philosophic
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: filosofico (it)
• Latvian: filozofisks
• Macedonian: филосо́фски m (filosófski), филозо́фски m (filozófski)
• Old English: ūþwitlīċ
• Polish: filozoficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: filosófico (pt)
• Romanian: filozofic (ro)
• Russian: филосо́фский (ru) (filosófskij)
• Spanish: filosófico (es) m
• Tagalog: batnayanin, batnayin
• Volapük: filosopik (vo)

rational, analytic

• Czech: rozumový (cs) m
• Greek: φιλοσοφική (el) f (filosofikí), φιλοσοφικός (el) m (filosofikós)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: filosófico (pt)

detached, calm, stoic

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• philosophical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia