historical
/hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.69 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
Example Sentences
- "July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day."
- "The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic."
- "an important historical personage"
- "For in the contexte historicalle [Latin: In historico... contextu], the rewle off lyvenge and forme of vertues moralle and the incentiue of manhode ȝiffe grete resplendence thro the diligence of croniclers."
- "The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself."
- "There is no acknowledgment—because there is no understanding—that sometimes historical fiction departs from facts in order to reach for more abstract, thematic, or complexly intuitive truths that even the most diligently fact-checked histories and biographies can fail to illuminate."
Etymology
From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: historicus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
- British English: /hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more historical (comparative)
most historical (superlative)
historicall (alternative)
historicals (plural)
Derived Forms
Phrases
art-historical
culture-historical
dictionary on historical principles
grammatico-historical
historical Christian
historical-comparative
historical cost
historical-critical