Methodical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Methodic \Me*thod"ic\, Methodical \Me*thod"ic*al\, a. [L.
     methodicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. m['e]thodique.]
     1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable
        manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to
        facilitate practical observation; well-ordered; as, the
        methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical


        treatise. [WordNet sense 2] "Methodical regularity."
        --Addison.
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     2. Proceeding with regard to method; characterized by method
        or orderliness; systematic; as, a methodical
        investigation. [WordNet sense 1] "Aristotle, strict,
        methodic, and orderly." --Harris.
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     3. Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians
        called methodists. --Johnson.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Me*thod"ic*al*ly}, adv. --
        {Me*thod"ic*al*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  methodical
       adj : characterized by method and orderliness; "a methodical
             scholar"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "methodical":
     accordant, alike, analytical, arranged, automatic, balanced,
     businesslike, careful, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous,
     correspondent, deliberate, disciplined, equable, equal, even,
     exact, flat, formal, habitual, harmonious, homogeneous, immutable,
     in hand, invariable, labored, laborious, level, logical, measured,
     mechanical, methodic, methodized, meticulous, monolithic, neat,
     normal, of a piece, ordered, orderly, organized, paced,
     painstaking, persistent, plodding, precious, precise, precisian,
     precisionist, punctilious, puristic, regular, regular as clockwork,
     robotlike, routine, scrupulous, smooth, stable, steadfast, steady,
     structured, symmetrical, systematic, systematized, tidy, unbroken,
     unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated,
     undiversified, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, usual,
     well-ordered, well-regulated