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paedagogical

paedagogical is the alternative spelling 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 paedagogical

comparativemore paedagogical
superlativemost paedagogical

Origin of paedagogical

From paedagogic + -al.

Questions about paedagogical

What is paedagogical the alternative spelling of?
Paedagogical is the alternative spelling of pedagogical.

Words near paedagogical in the dictionary

  1. paeanism
  2. paeanismos
  3. paeanisms
  4. paeans
  5. paedagogic
  6. paedagogical
  7. paedagogically
  8. paedagogics
  9. paedagogies
  10. paedagogism
  11. paedagogue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paedagogical (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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