classical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: See classic § Etymology for history. By surface analysis, class + -ical or classic + -al or class + -ic + -al
Base: classic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more classical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most classical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
pos: adj
examples: ... Mr. Greaves, who may be juſtly reckoned a Claſſical Author on this Subject.
gloss: Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
pos: adj
examples: Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
gloss: Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
pos: adj
gloss: Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
gloss: Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
pos: adj
examples: a classical scholar
But she’s not just classy; she’s classical: so deeply versed in tap tradition and technique that she has the whole of it at her command and never has to worry.
gloss: Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
pos: adj
examples: classical dance
1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume 1, page 151.
Classical, provincial, and national synods.
gloss: Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
pos: adj
Synonyms: classic
Related words: classicism
Derived words: anteclassical
anticlassical
classical antiquity
Classical antiquity
Classical Arabic
Classical Armenian
Classical Chinese
classical cipher
classical college
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 studies
Classical Syriac
classical thermodynamics
Classical Tupi
classical unemployment
classical unity
epiclassical
extraclassical
hyperclassical
jazzical
neoclassical
nonclassical
paleoclassical
postclassical
preclassical
pseudoclassical
quasiclassical
semiclassical
superclassical
unclassical
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: դասական
roman: dasakan
lang: Bulgarian
word: класи́чески
roman: klasíčeski
lang: Danish
word: klassisk
lang: Finnish
word: klassinen
lang: French
word: classique
lang: German
word: klassisch
lang: Hungarian
word: klasszikus
lang: Hungarian
word: komoly-
lang: Irish
word: clasaiceach
lang: Italian
word: classico
lang: Kazakh
word: классикалық
roman: klassikalyq
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کلاسیکی
roman: klasîkî
lang: Persian
word: کلاسیک
roman: klâsik
lang: Portuguese
word: clássico
lang: Russian
word: класси́ческий
roman: klassíčeskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: класичан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: klasičan
lang: Slovene
word: klasičen
lang: Spanish
word: clásico
lang: Swedish
word: klassisk
lang: Welsh
word: clasurol
lang: Welsh
word: uchawdurol