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elenctical

elenctical 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 elenctical

comparativemore elenctical
superlativemost elenctical

Questions about elenctical

What is elenctical the alternative form of?
Elenctical is the alternative form of elenctic.

Words near elenctical in the dictionary

  1. elenchtic
  2. elenchtical
  3. elenchus
  4. elenctic
  5. elenctic method
  6. elenctical
  7. elenge
  8. Eleni
  9. Elenydd
  10. eleocyte
  11. eleocytes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elenctical (page history and authors); elenctic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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