socratic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: So=crat=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

socratic, a. [L. Socraticus, Gr. .].

 Of or pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.  [1913 Webster]
" The Socratic method of reasoning and instruction was by a series of questions leading the one to whom they were addressed to perceive and admit what was true or false in doctrine, or right or wrong in conduct."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

socratic, adj. & n.
--adj. of or relating to the Greek philosopher Socrates (d. 399 BC) or his philosophy, esp. the method associated with him of seeking the truth by a series of questions and answers.
--n. a follower of Socrates.

Idiom

Socratic irony a pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can then be challenged.

Derivative

Socratically adv.

Etymology

L Socraticus f. Gk Sokratikos f. Sokrates

THESAURUS

socratic

Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Spencerian, Thomist, Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian, pre-Socratic