systematic
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin systēmaticus, from Koine Greek συστηματικός (sustēmatikós), from σύστημᾰ (sústēmă, “a composite; system”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjective suffix). Cognate with French systématique and Italian sistematico. By surface analysis, system + -atic.
Base: σύστημᾰ
Affixes: -ῐκός
Inflected forms:
form: more systematic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most systematic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: systematick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more systematic
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most systematic
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: systematick
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Carried out according to a planned, ordered procedure.
pos: adj
examples: The existence of a systematic nomenclature for the unknown elements does not deny the right of 'discoverers' of new elements to suggest other names to the Commission after their discovery has been established beyond all doubt in the general scientific community.
gloss: Methodical; regular and orderly.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Particular note, in this period, should be made of the actions of Joseph Denman, commander of the Northern Division of the Squadron, who went on an absolutely ruthless and systematic campaign along the African coast, burning so-called "slaving factories" to the ground and openly daring anyone who objected to try and stop him.
gloss: Treating an object as a system or coherent whole.
pos: adj
examples: the systematic study of religious beliefs
gloss: Of or relating to taxonomic classification.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or in accordance with generally recognized conventions for the naming of chemicals.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or being a system.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
literary
examples: But the systematic judgment is altogether unprofitable. Its author has not really his eye upon the professed object of his criticism at all, but upon something else, which he wants to prove by means of that object. […] As it is, all that he tells us is that he is no genuine critic, but a man with a system, an advocate.
And Paruta’s work also suggests that Venetians in the generation following the battle of Lepanto, although without altogether abandoning systematic views, were tending increasingly to look to history for their understanding of human affairs.
gloss: systematically
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
examples: "So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the best and storing us in cages and things."
And say, when them Gogs started out to put a thing through they did it systematic and thorough.
Antonyms: asystematic
nonsystematic
unsystematic
Related words: systemic
Derived words: asystematic
biosystematic
chemosystematic
diasystematic
ecosystematic
intersystematic
karyosystematic
nonsystematic
oversystematic
presystematic
semisystematic
systematicality
systematically
systematic element name
systematicist
systematicity
systematic name
systematicness
systematic risk
systematics
systematize
transsystematic
ultrasystematic
unsystematic
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