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pædagogical

pædagogical is the obsolete form of pedagogical.

Meaning of pedagogical

Adjective

pedagogical (comparative more pedagogical, superlative most pedagogical)

  1. Of, or relating to pedagogy; teaching.
    • As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144
    Synonyms:
    didactic, pedagogic
  2. Haughty and formal.
    Synonyms:
    pedantic

Forms of pædagogical

comparativemore pædagogical
superlativemost pædagogical

Origin of pædagogical

From pædagogic + -al.

Questions about pædagogical

What is pædagogical the obsolete form of?
Pædagogical is the obsolete form of pedagogical.

Words near pædagogical in the dictionary

  1. pæaned
  2. pæaning
  3. pæans
  4. pædagog
  5. pædagogic
  6. pædagogical
  7. pædagogically
  8. pædagogs
  9. pædagogue
  10. pædagogues
  11. pædant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pædagogical (page history and authors); pedagogical (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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