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Definition: Philosophic |
PhilosophicAdjective1. Of or relating to philosophy or philosophers; "philosophical writing"; "a considerable knowledge of philosophical terminology". 2. Characteristic of or imbued with the attitude of a philosopher or based on philosophy; "that breadth of outlook that distinguishes the philosophic mind"; "their differences were philosophical". 3. Characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "philosophic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: PhilosophicSynonym: philosophical (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonphilosophical (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Adjective: inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible; (insensible); unpassionate, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring; Verb: stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Philosophic |
| English words defined with "philosophic": organon ♦ philosophical, philosophically. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "philosophic": Freudian Theory ♦ Noumenon ♦ Painters and Artists. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "philosophic": Theophilosophic. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edgar Quinet | I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. |
W. Winwood Reade | The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The world of the German literate consisted solely in bringing the new French ideas into harmony with their ancient philosophical conscience, or rather, in annexing the French ideas without deserting their own philosophic point of view. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There is the religious mine, the philosophic mine, the political mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Discrimination | Sao Tome and Principe | The Constitution provides for the equality of all citizens regardless of sex, race, racial origin, political tendency, creed, or philosophic conviction; however, the Government has not sought actively to enforce these provisions. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning -- which is a phenomenon. Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls "the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought." Hurrah (therefore) for the noumenon! |
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| "Philosophic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Philosophic" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 66 | 41,290 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "philosophic": philosophical philosophic. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "philosophic": philosophic-religious. | |
Ending with "philosophic": tellectual-philosophic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
philosophic | 4 |
philosophic quote | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "philosophic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | filozofik (philosophical). (various references) | |
Chinese | 哲學上 , 哲学 (Philosophical, Philosophies, philosophy). (various references) | |
Czech | filozofický (philosophical). (various references) | |
Dutch | filosofisch. (various references) | |
Esperanto | filozofia. (various references) | |
Farsi | فلسفی . (various references) | |
Finnish | filosofinen. (various references) | |
German | philosophisch (philosophical). (various references) | |
Greek | φιλοσοφικόσ (philosophical). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | filozofik. (various references) | |
Hungarian | józan (philosophical, sane, sober), filozofikus (philosophical), filozófiai (philosophical), bölcseleti (philosophical). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berfilsafat (philosophize). (various references) | |
Italian | filosofico (philosophical). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 達観 (farsightedness, taking a philosophic view), 仙骨 (outstanding appearance, philosophic turn of mind, sacral bone, the sacrum, unusual physique), 哲理 (philosophic principles, philosophy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たっかん (farsightedness, taking a philosophic view), せんこつ (outstanding appearance, philosophic turn of mind, sacral bone, sacrum, the sacrum, unusual physique), てつり (philosophic principles, philosophy). (various references) | |
Manx | fallsoonagh (philosopher, schoolman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilosophicphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | relativo à filosofia (philosophical), filosófico (philosophical), filósofo (philosopher), calmo (calm, peaceful, quiet, serene, tranquil). (various references) | |
Romanian | raţional (judicious, logical, lucid, philosophical, rational, rationalistic, rationally, reasonable, reasonably, sensible, sound, soundly), filozofic (philosophical, philosophically), înţelept (advisedly, nestor, philosopher, philosophical, politic, profound, prudent, ripe, sagacious, sage, sapient, thinking, well advised, wise, wisely). (various references) | |
Russian | философский (philosophical). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | filosofski. (various references) | |
Spanish | filosófico (philosophical). (various references) | |
Swedish | filosofisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | sakin (airless, calm, citizen, comfortable, composed, composedly, dispassionate, domicilled, dweller, equal, even, even tempered, habitant, halcyon, hushed, imperturbable, in repose, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, laidback, local, nerveless, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, philosophical, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, resident, sedate, serene, smooth, steady, still, tenant, tranquil, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled), kalender (carefree, philosophical, unconventional), filozofik (philosophical), felsefi (philosophical), düşünceli (abstracted, advised, circumspect, considerate, delicate, forethoughtful, meditative, minded, mindful, pensive, philosophical, reflective, regardful, ruminant, ruminative, sophisticated, tactful, thoughtful, wistful, worried). (various references) | |
Turkmen | filosofik (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | філософський (philosophical), мудрий (gash, philosophical, quaint, sage, sapiential, wise). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thông thái (learned, philosophical, read, scholar, scholarly), khôn ngoan (advisable, day, discreet, philosophical, politic, politically, sage, sapiential, subtle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "philosophic": philosophical, philosophically. (additional references) | |
Words containing "philosophic": nonphilosophical. (additional references) | |
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"Philosophic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: philosoph, philosophe, philosophes, philosophia, philosophica, Philosophicum, philosophie, Philosophische, philosphic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "philosophic" (pronounced fi'lusÄ"fik) |
| 4 | -Ä" f i k | catastrophic, geostrophic, heterotrophic. |
| 3 | -f i k | anthropomorphic, autotrophic, calligraphic, choreographic, delphic, demographic, dimorphic, epigraphic, ethnographic, geographic, graphic, hieroglyphic, holographic, honorific, horrific, hydrographic, lithographic, logographic, metamorphic, micrographic, nonspecific, oceanographic, orographic, orphic, Pacific, photographic, polymorphic, pornographic, prolific, pseudoscientific, reprographic, scientific, specific, stenographic, stereographic, stratigraphic, terrific, topographic, traffic, transpacific, unscientific. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-h-i-i-l-o-o-p-p-s" | |
-4 letters: coolish, hippish. | |
-5 letters: chilis, cholos, cohosh, hippos, lichis, polios, polish, popish, school. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-h-i-i-l-o-o-p-p-s" | |
+2 letters: philosophical. | |
+4 letters: philosophically. | |
+5 letters: nonphilosophical, pathophysiologic, physiopathologic. | |
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