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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective dialectical has 1 sense
- dialectical(a = adj.pert) dialectic - of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method" Derived forms noun dialectic1, noun dialectic2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dialectical, adj. of dialectic or dialectics.
Idiom
dialectical materialism the Marxist theory that political and historical events are due to a conflict of social forces caused by man's material needs.
Derivative
dialectically adv.
THESAURUS
dialectical
a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, argumental, argumentative, categorical, combative, conditional, contentious, controversial, deductive, dialectic, discursive, disputatious, enthymematic, epagogic, eristic, hypothetical, ill-humored, inductive, inferential, litigious, logomachic, maieutic, pilpulistic, polemic, pro and con, quarrelsome, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic
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