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methodological

/ˌmɛθ.ə.dəˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/US/ˌmɛθ.ə.dəˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/

methodological adjective: of, pertaining to, or using methodology or a methodology.

Adjective

methodological (comparative more methodological, superlative most methodological)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or using methodology or a methodology.
    • No single study will ever be able to overcome any and all methodological limitations.2006, Paul D. Hastings, Johanna Vyncke, Caroline Sullivan, Kelly E. McShane, Michael Benibgui, William Utendale, Children's Development of Social Competence Across Family Types
    • The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...

Examples of methodological in a sentence

  • The third pair of presuppositions concerns methodology: methodological individualism or atomicism versus holism or organicism.
  • And so the followers of Seferis, although they inherit a method, practice an unmethod, a methodological void.
  • The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.

All 19 example sentences with methodological

Forms of methodological

comparativemore methodological
superlativemost methodological

Origin of methodological

From methodology + -ical.

Words formed from methodological

Questions about methodological

What does methodological mean?
Methodological means of, pertaining to, or using methodology or a methodology.
What part of speech is methodological?
Methodological is an adjective.
How do you pronounce methodological?
Methodological is pronounced /ˌmɛθ.ə.dəˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/ (UK).

Words near methodological in the dictionary

  1. methodizing
  2. methodless
  3. methodlessness
  4. methodolatry
  5. methodologic
  6. methodological
  7. methodologically
  8. methodologies
  9. methodologist
  10. methodologists
  11. methodology

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