Synonyms for philosophical
ˌfɪl əˈsɒf ɪ kəlphilo·soph·i·cal

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1. philosophicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   philosophic

2. philosophicaladjective

   Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.

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   philosophic

3. philosophicaladjective

   Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful.

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   philosophic

4. philosophicaladjective

   Detached, calm, stoic.

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   philosophic

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1. philosophical

   Synonyms:
   wise, sound, conclusive, scientific, accurate, enlightened, rational, calm, unprejudiced

   Antonyms:
   unsound, crude, vague, loose, inaccurate, popular, unscientific, sciolistic, unphilosophical

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1. philosophic, philosophicaladjective

   of or relating to philosophy or philosophers

   "philosophical writing"; "a considerable knowledge of philosophical terminology"

   Synonyms:
   philosophic

   Antonyms:
   emotional

2. philosophical, philosophicadjective

   characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment

   "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life"

   Synonyms:
   philosophic

   Antonyms:
   emotional

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1. philosophicaladjective

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   of philosophy

2. philosophicaladjective

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   of a philosopher, of philosophers

3. philosophicaladjective

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   wise, rational, reasonable

4. philosophicaladjective

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   calm, cool, collected, composed, unruffled, sedate, serene, tranquil, imperturbable, stoical, platonic

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1. List of paraphrases for "philosophical":

   philosophy, philosophic

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1. Vladan Kuzmanović:

   Sabism is a thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism of color, active color, logical panel.

2. Kevin McCarthy:

   He's worked with them -- and on both sides of the aisle, and just the way Paul carries himself -- it's not on the political nature, it's on the policy nature. And I think that gets a lot of people's respect. He can go into any facet of any philosophical belief over there -- and have the credibility.

3. Kedar Joshi:

   God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

4. Unknown:

   Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.

5. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay:

   Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.