Synonyms for historical
hɪˈstɔr ɪ kəl, -ˈstɒr-his·tor·i·cal

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1. historicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   historic

2. historicaladjective

   Pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

   Synonyms:
   historic

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1. historicaladjective

   of or relating to the study of history

   "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective"

   Synonyms:
   historic, diachronic

   Antonyms:
   future, ahistorical, present(a), unreal

2. historicaladjective

   having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary

   "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events"

   Synonyms:
   historic, diachronic

   Antonyms:
   present(a), unreal, future, ahistorical

3. historic, historicaladjective

   belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past

   "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character"

   Synonyms:
   historic, diachronic

   Antonyms:
   future, ahistorical, unreal, present(a)

4. diachronic, historicaladjective

   used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time

   "diachronic linguistics"

   Synonyms:
   historic, diachronic

   Antonyms:
   unreal, future, present(a), ahistorical

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1. List of paraphrases for "historical":

   historic, history, landmark, historique, background, histórico, historically, chronological, story, retrospective, past

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1. Bill Dunkelberg:

   Hiring activity remains strong by historical standards, but the drop in June was unmistakable, whether this is the start of a negative trend or a one-month blip is something we ’ll have to keep an eye on.

2. Eric Williams:

   Segregation was the accepted social order of that time, if we alter the monument, we alter its historical integrity.

3. The Taliban:

   The dignitaries who met Mullah Baradar expressed their commitments towards Afghanistan's reconstruction and development... the U.S.-Taliban agreement is historical, baradar received congratulatory messages and thanked them (ministers and diplomats) for attending the ceremony.

4. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   The 19th day of our resistance is over. Historical war. Another difficult day, which is still approaching our victory. Approaching peace for Ukraine.

5. Andrew Tilker:

   We had these two historical localities separated by quite some distance — one in the southern part of Vietnam and the other much further north, but we knew that many people have camera-trapped in the wet evergreen forests and hadn't seen it, so we thought we should look at the dry forest habitat that's really different and where not many people have looked.