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- pronunciation:
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
of or relating to history or to the past.
I'm particularly interested in historical subjects such as the causes of war.The Boston Massacre was an historical event that took place in 1770.- antonyms:
- contemporary
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| definition 2: |
representing or based upon history.
Shakespeare wrote historical plays in addition to comedies and tragedies.- similar words:
- period
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| definition 3: |
based on or relating to the records of history, as opposed to the stories of legend or myth.
The historical Pocahontas differs greatly from film versions.- antonyms:
- mythical
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(adj.)historical
+ noun
account,
accuracy,
analogy,
analysis,
archive,
artifact,
background,
biography,
circumstance,
consciousness,
context,
contingency,
continuity,
criticism,
data,
development,
dimension,
discourse,
document,
drama,
epoch,
essay,
event,
evidence,
evolution,
exhibit,
experience,
fiction,
figure,
framework,
geography,
heritage,
imagination,
importance,
injustice,
inquiry,
interpretation,
landmark,
legacy,
literature,
marker,
materialism,
meaning,
memory,
monument,
narrative,
norm,
novel,
origin,
overview,
parallel,
period,
perspective,
phenomenon,
precedent,
present,
preservation,
profession,
reality,
reconstruction,
record,
reference,
representation,
review,
romance,
root,
scholarship,
sequence,
significance,
society,
specificity,
theology,
tradition,
trauma,
trend,
understanding,
writing
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| derivations: |
historically (adv.), historicalness (n.) |
The word historical
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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