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elenchtical

elenchtical is the alternative form of elenctic.

Meaning of elenctic

Adjective

elenctic (comparative more elenctic, superlative most elenctic)

  1. Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination.
    • ‘What lady?’ he asked in the elenctic tones of Lewis Carroll's caterpillar.1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 101

Forms of elenchtical

comparativemore elenchtical
superlativemost elenchtical

Questions about elenchtical

What is elenchtical the alternative form of?
Elenchtical is the alternative form of elenctic.

Words near elenchtical in the dictionary

  1. elenchized
  2. elenchizes
  3. elenchizing
  4. elenchs
  5. elenchtic
  6. elenchtical
  7. elenchus
  8. elenctic
  9. elenctic method
  10. elenctical
  11. elenge

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