Adjective

(en adjective)

Evident without proof or argument.

* 1932 , , Brave New World :

The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.

* 1984 , , Welsh v. Wisconsin, United States Supreme Court (66 U.S. 740, 748)

It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed."

Of or pertaining to an axiom.

(informal) Obvious.

Adjective

(head)

Practiced; self-conscious; careful.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}