PHILOSOPHIZE


Meaning of PHILOSOPHIZE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fɪlɒsəfaɪz ]

( philosophizes, philosophizing, philosophized)

Note: in BRIT, also use 'philosophise'

If you say that someone is philosophizing , you mean that they are talking or thinking about important subjects, sometimes instead of doing something practical.

He philosophized, he admitted, not because he was certain of establishing the truth, but because it gave him pleasure.

...a tendency to philosophize about racial harmony.

VERB : V , V about/on n , also V with quote

• phi‧loso‧phiz‧ing

The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems.

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