English-Thai Dictionary

categorical

ADV อย่างแท้จริง  อย่าง ไม่มีเงื่อนไข  absolute yang-tae-jing

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CATEGORICAL

a. 1. Pertaining to a category.
2. Absolute; positive; express; not relative or hypothetical; as a categorical proposition, syllogism or answer.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CATEGORICAL

CATEGORICAL Cat `e *gor "ic *al, a.

 

1. Of or pertaining to a category.

 

2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions... distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.

 

CATEGORICALLY

CATEGORICALLY Cat `e *gor "ic *al *ly, adv.

 

Defn: Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.

 

CATEGORICALNESS

CATEGORICALNESS Cat `e *gor "ic *al *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

categorical

cat e go ri cal |ˌkatəˈgôrikəl ˈˌkædəˈɡɔrəkəl | ▶adjective unambiguously explicit and direct: a categorical assurance. DERIVATIVES cat e gor ic adjective, cat e gor i cal ly |-ik (ə )lē |adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from late Latin categoricus (from Greek katēgorikos, from katēgoria ‘statement ’: see category ) + -al .

 

categorical imperative

cat e go ri cal im per a tive ▶noun Philosophy (in Kantian ethics ) an unconditional moral obligation that is binding in all circumstances and is not dependent on a person's inclination or purpose.

 

Oxford Dictionary

categorical

cat ¦egor |ic ¦al |katɪˈgɒrɪk (ə )l | ▶adjective unambiguously explicit and direct: a categorical assurance. DERIVATIVES categoric adjective, categorically adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from late Latin categoricus (from Greek katēgorikos, from katēgoria ‘statement ’: see category ) + -al .

 

categorical imperative

cat ¦egor |ic ¦al im |pera |tive ▶noun Philosophy (in Kantian ethics ) an unconditional moral obligation which is binding in all circumstances and is not dependent on a person's inclination or purpose.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

categorical

categorical adjective a categorical assurance that annual premiums would not increase: unqualified, unconditional, unequivocal, absolute, explicit, express, unambiguous, definite, direct, downright, outright, emphatic, positive, point-blank, conclusive, without reservations, out-and-out. ANTONYMS qualified, equivocal.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

categorical

categorical adjective a categorical assurance that the government will not raise VAT: unqualified, unconditional, unequivocal, unreserved, absolute, explicit, unambiguous, definite, certain, direct, downright, outright, complete, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, emphatic, positive, express, point-blank, wholehearted, conclusive, undiluted, unalloyed, unadulterated, unstinting, without reservations, out-and-out, one hundred per cent; formal apodictic. ANTONYMS qualified, equivocal.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

categorical

cat e gor i cal /kæ̀təɡɔ́ːrɪk (ə )l |-ɡɔ́r -/形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗1 断定的な 〈発言など 〉, 絶対的な, 無条件の .2 分類別の .

 

categorically

c à t e g ó r i cal ly 副詞 無条件に ; 断固として .