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US
/ˈɫɑdʒɪkəɫ/
]
[ UK /lˈɒdʒɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /lˈɒdʒɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
a coherent argument -
based on known statements or events or conditions
rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year -
capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident
a lucid thinker -
capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
a logical mind
How To Use logical In A Sentence
- An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- If all this seems a little negative, let me assure you I now feel an almost pathological fondness for the place. Times, Sunday Times
- In a field where biological material is limited, experimental cytogenetic techniques often require only a few cells.
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- We did that a couple of Saturdays ago when we put on the most ridiculously illogical bet.
- The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
- Four principal types of source pertain to the subject: literature, works of graphic or plastic art, archaeological remains, and notated pieces of music.
- No, but they more or less remained together, I hate to use the word ideologically, but I guess for want of a better word, they seemed to always react, more or less, the same way to political situations and to political candidates 'platforms. Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0082. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.