Positivistic

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  positivistic
       adj : of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers";
             "positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy" [syn: {positivist},
              {positive}]

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



  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "positivistic":
     Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic,
     animist, animistic, atomistic, bigoted, commonsense, conceited,
     cosmotheistic, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing,
     down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic,
     existential, hardheaded, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist,
     humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic,
     instrumentalist, materialist, materialistic, matter-of-fact,
     mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalist,
     naturalistic, nominalist, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned,
     oracular, panlogistical, pantheistic, peremptory, pontifical,
     positive, positivist, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic,
     pragmatist, pronunciative, rational, rationalistic, realist,
     realistic, reasonable, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic,
     secular, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, sensationalistic,
     sensible, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking,
     syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic,
     unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian,
     vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, worldly