Critically vs Philosophical - What's the difference?
critically | philosophical |
In a critical manner; with criticism.
With close discernment; accurately; exactly.
* Dryden
At a crisis or critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence.
* Bishop Burnet
Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful.
* 1846 , , "The Sphinx" in Arthur's Ladies Magazine ,
Detached, calm, stoic.
* 1911 , , "The Schartz-Metterklume Method,"
As a adverb critically
is in a critical manner; with criticism.As a adjective philosophical is
of, or pertaining to, philosophy.critically
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Adverb
(en adverb)- Critically to discern good writers from bad.
- a fortification critically situated
- Coming critically the night before the session.
philosophical
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Alternative forms
* philosophicall (obsolete) * phylosophical (nonstandard) * phylosophicall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- His richly philosophical intellect was not at any time affected by unrealities.
- She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference.