Words that rhyme with arithmetical

  • problematical
    adj 1: open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic" [syn: debatable, problematic, problematical] 2: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough]
  • acquittal
    n 1: a judgment of not guilty [ant: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence]
  • aesthetical
    adj 1: concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; "the aesthetic faculties"; "an aesthetic person"; "aesthetic feeling"; "the illustrations made the book an aesthetic success" [syn: aesthetic, esthetic, aesthetical, esthetical] [ant: inaesthetic, unaesthetic]
  • alphabetical
    adj 1: relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet; "alphabetical writing system" [syn: alphabetic, alphabetical] [ant: analphabetic] 2: arranged in order according to the alphabet; "an alphabetic arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical order" [syn: alphabetic, alphabetical] [ant: analphabetic]
  • analytical
    adj 1: using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles); "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind" [syn: analytic, analytical] [ant: synthetic, synthetical] 2: of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition" [syn: analytic, analytical] [ant: synthetic, synthetical]
  • anarchical
    adj 1: without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic" [syn: anarchic, anarchical, lawless]
  • antithetical
    adj 1: sharply contrasted in character or purpose; "practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs"; "hope is antithetic to despair" [syn: antithetic, antithetical]
  • apolitical
    adj 1: politically neutral [syn: apolitical, unpolitical]
  • bicycle
    n 1: a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals [syn: bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle] v 1: ride a bicycle [syn: bicycle, cycle, bike, pedal, wheel]
  • catechetical
    adj 1: of or relating to or involving catechesis [syn: catechetical, catechetic]
  • chronological
    adj 1: relating to or arranged according to temporal order; "chronological age"
  • cull
    n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]
  • deckle
    n 1: rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper [syn: deckle edge, deckle] 2: (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets
  • diacritical
    adj 1: capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel [syn: diacritic, diacritical]
  • emblematical
    adj 1: serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish" [syn: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical]
  • enigmatical
    adj 1: not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries" [syn: enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling]
  • exegetical
    adj 1: relating to exegesis [syn: exegetic, exegetical]
  • fanatical
    adj 1: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid]
  • fickle
    adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile] 2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]
  • geopolitical
    adj 1: of or relating to geopolitics
  • grammatical
    adj 1: of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender" [syn: grammatical, grammatic] 2: conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" [syn: grammatical, well-formed] [ant: ill-formed, ungrammatical]
  • heretical
    adj 1: characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards [syn: dissident, heretical, heterodox]
  • hypercritical
    adj 1: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" [syn: hypercritical, overcritical]
  • hypocritical
    adj 1: professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
  • hypothetical
    adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious] n 1: a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; "consider the following, just as a hypothetical"
  • mathematical
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or of the nature of mathematics; "a mathematical textbook"; "slide rules and other mathematical instruments"; "a mathematical solution to a problem"; "mathematical proof" 2: relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers; "tests for rating numerical aptitude"; "a mathematical whiz" [syn: numerical, mathematical] [ant: verbal] 3: beyond question; "a mathematical certainty" 4: statistically possible though highly improbable; "have a mathematical chance of making the playoffs" 5: characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics; "mathematical precision"
  • mickle
    n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
  • nickel
    n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28] 2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar 3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note] v 1: plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
  • parasitical
    adj 1: relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection" [syn: parasitic, parasitical] 2: of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence" [syn: parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking]
  • parenthetical
    adj 1: qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks" [syn: parenthetic, parenthetical] n 1: an expression in parentheses; "his writing was full of parentheticals" [syn: parenthetical expression, parenthetical]
  • pickle
    n 1: vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] v 1: preserve in a pickling liquid
  • piratical
    adj 1: characteristic of pirates; "piratical attackers" 2: characteristic of piracy; "piratical editions of my book"
  • poetical
    adj 1: of or relating to poetry; "poetic works"; "a poetic romance" [syn: poetic, poetical] 2: characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction" [syn: poetic, poetical]
  • prickle
    n 1: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] v 1: cause a prickling sensation [syn: prickle, prick] 2: cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: tingle, prickle] 3: make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample" [syn: prickle, prick]
  • prophetical
    adj 1: foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic" [syn: prophetic, prophetical] [ant: unprophetic]
  • psychoanalytical
    adj 1: of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud; "Freud's psychoanalytical theories"; "psychoanalytic treatment" [syn: psychoanalytical, psychoanalytic]
  • sabbatical
    adj 1: of or relating to the Sabbath; "Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims" [syn: sabbatical, sabbatic] 2: of or relating to sabbatical leave; "sabbatical research project" n 1: a leave usually taken every seventh year [syn: sabbatical, sabbatical leave]
  • sickle
    n 1: an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook]
  • stickle
    v 1: dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
  • supercritical
    adj 1: (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases
  • theoretical
    adj 1: concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; "theoretical science" [syn: theoretical, theoretic] [ant: empiric, empirical] 2: concerned with theories rather than their practical applications; "theoretical physics" [ant: applied]
  • tickle
    n 1: a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking 2: the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling, titillation] v 1: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate] 2: feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill, tickle, vibrate] 3: touch or stroke lightly; "The grass tickled her calves"
  • trickle
    n 1: flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle, dribble] v 1: run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" [syn: trickle, dribble, filter]
  • uncritical
    adj 1: marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts" [syn: uncritical, noncritical] [ant: critical] 2: not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer" [ant: critical]
  • ungrammatical
    adj 1: not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage [syn: ungrammatical, ill-formed] [ant: grammatical, well-formed]
  • brickle
    adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: brittle, brickle, brickly]
  • chicle
    n 1: gum-like substance from the sapodilla [syn: chicle, chicle gum]
  • cul
    n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
  • picul
    n 1: a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry)
  • strickle
    n 1: an implement for sharpening scythes 2: a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure 3: a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand v 1: level off with a strickle in a measuring container; "strickle sand" 2: smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure" [syn: strickle, strike]
  • mispickel
    n 1: a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic [syn: arsenopyrite, mispickel]
  • cupronickel
    n 1: a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel
  • reticle
    n 1: a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument [syn: reticle, reticule, graticule]
  • overcritical
    adj 1: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" [syn: hypercritical, overcritical]
  • unpolitical
    adj 1: politically neutral [syn: apolitical, unpolitical]
  • epithetical
  • hydrostatical
  • kinematical
  • nicol
  • nicoll
  • ferronickel
  • bickel
  • bickell
  • bickle
  • brickel
  • brickell
  • metathetical
  • subcritical
  • statical
  • prelatical
  • apostatical

See also arithmetical definition and arithmetical synonyms