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Stratagem vs Stratagemical - What's the difference?

stratagem | stratagemical |

As a noun stratagem

is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.

As an adjective stratagemical is

(obsolete) strategic; involving stratagem.

stratagem

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
    • While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.

    Related terms

    * strategic * strategist * strategy

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    stratagemical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) strategic; involving stratagem
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    (Webster 1913)