English Explanatory Dictionary

historical

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
  2. About history; depicting persons or events from history.
  3. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
  4. Set in the past.
  5. Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
  6. One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
  7. Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.
  8. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
  9. Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
  10. Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
  11. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically"
noun
  1. A historical romance.

Pronunciation

/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/ /hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/ En-us-historical.ogg /hɪˈstɑɹɪkəl/

Word forms

historical more historical most historical historicall historicals

Etymology

From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.

Synonyms

historial bygone former old ancient historic past hereditary or evolutionary

Antonyms

ahistorical anachronistic modern contemporary present present-day future projected expected

Derived words

ahistorical allohistorical anhistorical antihistorical art-historical biohistorical counterhistorical cryptohistorical culture-historical culturohistorical dictionary on historical principles ecohistorical ethnohistorical geohistorical grammatico-historical historical Christian historical-comparative historical cost historical-critical historical criticism historical-cultural historical determinism historical dictionary historical-economic historical faith historical fiction historical-geographical historical geology historical grammar historical-grammatical historical interpreter historicalist historicalization historicalize historical-lexicographical historical linguist historical linguistics historically historical materialism historical materialist historical method historical-minded historical-mindedness historicalness historical novel historical-onomatological historical-political historical present historical present tense historical relativism historical research historical shirt historical society historical-sociological historical sociology historical subject historical-typological hysterical historical macrohistorical media-historical

Translations

Afrikaans: histories Albanian: historik Southern Altai: тӱӱкилик Arabic: تَارِيخِي Armenian: պատմական Asturian: históricu Azerbaijani: tarixi Azerbaijani: tarix Bashkir: тарихи Basque: historiko Belarusian: гістары́чны Bengali: ঐতিহাসিক Bulgarian: истори́чески Catalan: històric Cebuano: makasaysayon Chinese Mandarin: 歷史的 /历史的 Crimean Tatar: tarihiy Czech: historický Danish: historisk Dutch: geschiedkundig Dutch: historisch Esperanto: historia Estonian: ajalooline Faroese: søguligur Finnish: historiallinen French: historique Galician: histórico Georgian: ისტორიული German: geschichtlich German: historisch Greek: ιστορικός Ancient Greek: ἱστορικός Gujarati: ઐતિહાસિક Hebrew: הִיסְטוֹרִי Hiligaynon: maragtasnon Hindi: ऐतिहासिक Hungarian: történelmi Icelandic: sögulegur Icelandic: sagnfræðilegur Indonesian: historis Indonesian: bersejarah Interlingua: historic Irish: stairiúil Italian: storico Japanese: 歴史的な
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