methodical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: me=thod=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

methodical, a. [L. methodicus, Gr. : cf. F. méthodique.].

•  Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; well-ordered; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]
•  Proceeding with regard to method; characterized by method or orderliness; systematic; as, a methodical investigation.  Harris.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians called methodists.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

methodical, adj. (also methodic) characterized by method or order.

Derivative

methodically adv.

Etymology

LL methodicus f. Gk methodikos (as METHOD)

THESAURUS

methodical

accordant, alike, analytical, arranged, automatic, balanced, businesslike, careful, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, deliberate, disciplined, equable, equal, even, exact, flat, formal, habitual, harmonious, homogeneous, immutable, in hand, invariable, labored, laborious, level, logical, measured, mechanical, methodic, methodized, meticulous, monolithic, neat, normal, of a piece, ordered, orderly, organized, paced, painstaking, persistent, plodding, precious, precise, precisian, precisionist, punctilious, puristic, regular, regular as clockwork, robotlike, routine, scrupulous, smooth, stable, steadfast, steady, structured, symmetrical, systematic, systematized, tidy, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, usual, well-ordered, well-regulated

ROGET THESAURUS

methodical

Order

N order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo, music of the spheres, gradation, progression, series, subordination, course, even tenor, routine, method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness, rank, place, orderly, regular, in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place, neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic, unconfused &c (confuse), arranged, in order, methodically, in turn, in its turn, by steps, step by step, by regular steps, by regular gradations, by regular stages, by regular intervals, seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim, at stated periods, natura non facit saltum, order is heaven's first law, order from disorder sprung, ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca tribue.

Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.