philosophically
/fˌɪləsˈɑfɪkəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a philosophical (calm and stoically accepting) manner.
Example Sentences
- "In reality, while the utilitarian and ‘end-in-itself’ views may be philosophically distinct they are in fact intertwined in a complex and probably unravellable manner within the various personalities representing the competing views."
- "But he did not subscribe to the winning-is-the-only-thing school, either philosophically or managerially."
- "[…] it privileges philosophically oriented theory, disregarding popular forms such as, in the present case, anonymous and collective modes of authorship typical of TV, cinema, advertising, street ballads, and compunovels."
- "To the (philosophically) trained Pantheist, the abstraction, or the noumenon, is the ever to be unknown Deity, the on eternal reality, formless, because homogeneous and impartite; ..."
- "She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts."
- ""[…] Why should our ally want our secret plans?" "Why not, if he can get them?" demanded Max Carrados philosophically."
Etymology
Etymology tree English philosophical Middle English -ly English -ly English philosophically From philosophical + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more philosophically (comparative)
most philosophically (superlative)