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unphilosophic

unphilosophic adjective: not philosophic.

Adjective

unphilosophic (comparative more unphilosophic, superlative most unphilosophic)

  1. Not philosophic.
    • Light is a term merely relative to us; but light itself has no absolute existence any more than sound: then how unphilosophic are the terms latent light, and light in darkness, which we sometimes hear—as if that which is merely an effect could be regarded as a cause, or as a physical force, at the...1846, unknown, “On the Theory of Photographic Action”, in Scientific American, volume 2, number 13, page 104

Forms of unphilosophic

comparativemore unphilosophic
superlativemost unphilosophic

Origin of unphilosophic

From un- + philosophic.

Questions about unphilosophic

What does unphilosophic mean?
Unphilosophic means not philosophic.
What part of speech is unphilosophic?
Unphilosophic is an adjective.

Words near unphilosophic in the dictionary

  1. unphilanthropically
  2. unphilological
  3. unphiloprogenitive
  4. unphilosopher
  5. unphilosophers
  6. unphilosophic
  7. unphilosophical
  8. unphilosophically
  9. unphilosophicalness
  10. unphilosophise
  11. unphilosophised

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