Philosophical vs Erudite - What's the difference?
philosophical | erudite | Synonyms |
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,"
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
* 1850 , , Ch. XII:
* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
* 2006 , Jeff Israely, "
Philosophical is a synonym of erudite.
As adjectives the difference between philosophical and erudite
is that philosophical is of, or pertaining to, philosophy while erudite is .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.
Antonyms
* nonphilosophicalSynonyms
* philosophicDerived terms
* philosophicallyExternal links
* (wikipedia "philosophical")erudite
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Adjective
(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.