Adjective: categorical
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more categorical |
| Superlative | most categorical |
Sample Sentences
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We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional). [1856, Robert Gordon Latham, Logic in the Application to Language:]
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Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams. [1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 74:]
Adjectives inflected like categorical
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Late Latin catēgoricus + -al. By surface analysis, category + -ical.
Verbs referencing "categorical"
Finnish Adjectives
kategorinen.