Words that rhyme with diacritical

• dialectical 1
  adj 1: of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method" [syn: dialectic, dialectical]
• aesthetical 0
  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 0
  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 0
  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]
• antithetical 0
  adj 1: sharply contrasted in character or purpose; "practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs"; "hope is antithetic to despair" [syn: antithetic, antithetical]
• apolitical 0
  adj 1: politically neutral [syn: apolitical, unpolitical]
• arithmetical 0
  adj 1: relating to or involving arithmetic; "arithmetical computations" [syn: arithmetical, arithmetic]
• canonical 0
  adj 1: appearing in a biblical canon; "a canonical book of the Christian New Testament" [syn: canonic, canonical] 2: of or relating to or required by canon law [syn: canonic, canonical] 3: reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern" [syn: basic, canonic, canonical] 4: conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis [syn: canonic, canonical, sanctioned]
• canticle 0
  n 1: a hymn derived from the Bible
• carbuncle 0
  n 1: deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets 2: an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus
• catechetical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or involving catechesis [syn: catechetical, catechetic]
• categorical 0
  adj 1: relating to or included in a category or categories [syn: categorical, categoric] 2: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional]
• cervical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; "cervical cancer" 2: relating to or associated with the neck
• chemical 0
  adj 1: relating to or used in chemistry; "chemical engineer"; "chemical balance" [syn: chemical, chemic] 2: of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes; "chemical fertilizer" n 1: material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules [syn: chemical, chemical substance]
• chronicle 0
  n 1: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] v 1: record in chronological order; make a historical record
• classical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture; "classic Cinese pottery" [syn: classical, classic] [ant: nonclassical] 2: of recognized authority or excellence; "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation" [syn: authoritative, classical, classic, definitive] 3: of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome; " a classical scholar" 4: (language) having the form used by ancient standard authors; "classical Greek 5: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical [syn: classical, classic, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenic] n 1: traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste [syn: classical music, classical, serious music]
• clavicle 0
  n 1: bone linking the scapula and sternum [syn: clavicle, collarbone]
• clerical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work" 2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar" 3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"
• clinical 0
  adj 1: relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients; "clinical observation"; "clinical case study" 2: scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"
• comical 0
  adj 1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible]
• conical 0
  adj 1: relating to or resembling a cone; "conical mountains"; "conelike fruit" [syn: conic, conical, conelike, cone-shaped]
• coracle 0
  n 1: a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain
• cortical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a cortex
• cosmological 0
  adj 1: pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe; "cosmologic science"; "cosmological redshift"; "cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmogenic] 2: pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality; "cosmologic philosophy"; "a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological]
• critical 0
  adj 1: marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude" [ant: uncritical] 2: at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction; "a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure"; "critical mass"; "go critical" [ant: noncritical] 3: characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings" [ant: noncritical, uncritical] 4: urgently needed; absolutely necessary; "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest" [syn: critical, vital] 5: forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test" [syn: critical, decisive] 6: being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage" [ant: noncritical, noncrucial] 7: of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism; "critical acclaim"
• cubical 0
  adj 1: shaped like a cube [syn: cubelike, cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal]
• cull 0
  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]
• diametrical 0
  adj 1: related to or along a diameter; "the diametral plane" [syn: diametral, diametric, diametrical] 2: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" [syn: diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar]
• ducal 0
  adj 1: of or belonging to or suitable for a duke; "ducal palace"
• emblematical 0
  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 0
  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 0
  adj 1: relating to exegesis [syn: exegetic, exegetical]
• fanatical 0
  adj 1: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid]
• geopolitical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to geopolitics
• grammatical 0
  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 0
  adj 1: characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards [syn: dissident, heretical, heterodox]
• hypercritical 0
  adj 1: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" [syn: hypercritical, overcritical]
• hypocritical 0
  adj 1: professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
• hypothetical 0
  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"
• lackadaisical 0
  adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous] 2: idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
• mathematical 0
  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"
• parasitical 0
  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 0
  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]
• piratical 0
  adj 1: characteristic of pirates; "piratical attackers" 2: characteristic of piracy; "piratical editions of my book"
• poetical 0
  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]
• political 0
  adj 1: involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians; "calling a meeting is a political act in itself"- Daniel Goleman; "political pressure"; "a political machine"; "political office"; "political policy" [ant: nonpolitical] 2: of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power; "political opinions" 3: of or relating to the profession of governing; "political career"
• problematical 0
  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]
• prophetical 0
  adj 1: foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic" [syn: prophetic, prophetical] [ant: unprophetic]
• psychoanalytical 0
  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]
• rankle 0
  v 1: gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: eat into, fret, rankle, grate]
• rascal 0
  n 1: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet] 2: one who is playfully mischievous [syn: imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag]
• sabbatical 0
  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]
• scull 0
  n 1: a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward 2: each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman 3: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls v 1: propel with sculls; "scull the boat"
• supercritical 0
  adj 1: (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases
• theoretical 0
  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]
• twinkle 0
  n 1: a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash [syn: twinkle, scintillation, sparkling] 2: merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes" [syn: sparkle, twinkle, spark, light] v 1: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle] 2: emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?" [syn: twinkle, winkle, scintillate]
• uncle 0
  n 1: the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt [ant: aunt, auntie, aunty] 2: a source of help and advice and encouragement; "he played uncle to lonely students"
• uncritical 0
  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 0
  adj 1: not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage [syn: ungrammatical, ill-formed] [ant: grammatical, well-formed]
• vocal 0
  adj 1: relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; "vocal technique"; "the vocal repertoire"; "organized a vocal group to sing his compositions" [ant: instrumental] 2: having or using the power to produce speech or sound; "vocal organs"; "all vocal beings hymned their praise" 3: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly" [syn: outspoken, vocal] 4: full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children" n 1: music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment [syn: vocal music, vocal] 2: a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" [syn: song, vocal]
• cul 0
  n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
• michael 0
  n 1: (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews
• reticle 0
  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]
• conventicle 0
  n 1: a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship 2: a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) [syn: conventicle, meetinghouse]
• overcritical 0
  adj 1: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" [syn: hypercritical, overcritical]
• unpolitical 0
  adj 1: politically neutral [syn: apolitical, unpolitical]
• epithetical 0
• hydrostatical 0
• kinematical 0
• truncal 0
• metathetical 0
• subcritical 0
• statical 0
• prelatical 0
• apostatical 0

See also diacritical definition and diacritical synonyms