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phylosophical

phylosophical is the obsolete spelling of philosophical.

Meaning of philosophical

Adjective

philosophical (comparative more philosophical, superlative most philosophical)

  1. Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
    • All the creations of classic German philosophy, such as Hegel's Idea, Fichte's Ego, or Schelling's Absolute, appeared to him simply as substitutes for the Deity, reduced to a more abstract form by philosophical imagination.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
  2. Rational; analytic or critically minded; thoughtful.
    • His richly philosophical intellect was not at any time affected by unrealities.1846, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Sphinx”, in Arthur's Ladies Magazine
  3. Detached, calm, stoic.
    • She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference.1911, Hector Hugh Munro, The Schartz-Metterklume Method

Forms of phylosophical

comparativemore phylosophical
superlativemost phylosophical

Origin of phylosophical

From phylosophy + -ical.

Questions about phylosophical

What is phylosophical the obsolete spelling of?
Phylosophical is the obsolete spelling of philosophical.

Words near phylosophical in the dictionary

  1. phylosignal
  2. phylosignals
  3. phylosopher
  4. phylosophers
  5. phylosophic
  6. phylosophical
  7. phylosophicall
  8. phylosophick
  9. phylosophie
  10. phylosophies
  11. phylosophy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phylosophical (page history and authors); philosophical (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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