CATEGORICAL


Meaning of CATEGORICAL in English

— categorically , adv. — categoricalness , n.

/kat'i gawr"i keuhl, -gor"-/ , adj.

1. without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.

2. Logic.

a. (of a proposition) analyzable into a subject and an attribute related by a copula, as in the proposition "All humans are mortal."

b. (of a syllogism) having categorical propositions as premises.

3. of, pertaining to, or in a category.

Also, categoric .

[ 1590-1600; categoric ( us ) ( kategorikós; see CATEGORY, -IC) + -AL 1 ]

Syn. 1. positive, flat, downright.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .