English Explanatory Dictionary

classical

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.

noun

One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.
Ellipsis of classical music.
Ellipsis of classical chess.

Pronunciation

/ˈklæs.ɪ.k(ə)l/ [ˈklæs.ɪ.kɫ̩] En-us-classical.ogg /ˈklɛs.ɪ.kəl/ [ˈklɛs.ɪ.kɫ̩]

Word forms

classical more classical most classical classicals

Etymology

See classic § Etymology for history. By surface analysis, class + -ical or classic + -al or class + -ic + -al

Synonyms

classic traditional conventional canonical ancient Hellenic Roman

Antonyms

modern experimental popular contemporary quantum relativistic

Related words

classicism

Derived words

anteclassical anticlassical classical antiquity Classical Arabic Classical Armenian Classical Chinese classical cipher classical computer classical conditioning classical dressage Classical English classical era classical field theory Classical Greece Classical Greek classical guitar classical guitarist classical hadrodynamics Classical Hebrew classical history classical inheritance classicalism classicalist classicality classicalization classicalize Classical Japanese classical language Classical Latin classical liberal classical liberalism classical logic classically classical mechanics classical micropatriology classical music Classical Nahuatl classicalness classicalon classical physics classical planet Classical Sanskrit Classical Studies Classical Syriac classical thermodynamics Classical Tupi classical unemployment classical unity epiclassical extraclassical hyperclassical jazzical neoclassical nonclassical paleoclassical postclassical preclassical pseudoclassical quasiclassical semiclassical

Translations

Armenian: դասական Bulgarian: класи́чески Danish: klassisk Finnish: klassinen French: classique German: klassisch Hungarian: klasszikus Hungarian: komoly- Irish: clasaiceach Italian: classico Kazakh: классикалық Central Kurdish: کلاسیکی Persian: کلاسیک Portuguese: clássico Russian: класси́ческий Serbo-Croatian: класичан Serbo-Croatian: klasičan Slovene: klasičen Spanish: clásico Swedish: klassisk Welsh: clasurol Welsh: uchawdurol

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