dialectical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: di=a=lec=ti=cal

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dialectical, adj. of dialectic or dialectics.

Idiom

dialectical materialism the Marxist theory that political and historical events are due to a conflict of social forces caused by man's material needs.

Derivative

dialectically adv.

THESAURUS

dialectical

a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, argumental, argumentative, categorical, combative, conditional, contentious, controversial, deductive, dialectic, discursive, disputatious, enthymematic, epagogic, eristic, hypothetical, ill-humored, inductive, inferential, litigious, logomachic, maieutic, pilpulistic, polemic, pro and con, quarrelsome, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic