topical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: top=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

topical, a. [Cf. F. topique, LL. topicus, Gr. . See Topic, n.].

•  Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.  [1913 Webster]
•  Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.  [1913 Webster]

  "Evidences of fact can be no more than topical and probable."  Sir M. Hale.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

topical, adj.
1 dealing with the news, current affairs, etc. (a topical song).
2 dealing with a place; local.
3 Med. (of an ailment, medicine, etc.) affecting a part of the body.
4 of or concerning topics.

Derivative

topicality n. topically adv.

THESAURUS

topical

actual, as is, being, confined, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, geographically limited, immanent, immediate, instant, insular, latest, limited, local, localized, modern, new, of a place, parochial, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, provincial, running, superficial, that be, that is, thematic, timely, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, vernacular

ROGET THESAURUS

topical

Situation

N situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground, bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.