axiomatic
pronunciation
How to pronounce axiomatic in British English:
UK [ˌæksiəˈmætɪk]
How to pronounce axiomatic in American English:
US [ˌæksiəˈmætɪk]
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- Adjective:
- evident without proof or argument
- containing aphorisms or maxims
- of or relating to or derived from axioms
Word Origin
- axiomatic (adj.)
- 1797, from Greek axiomatikos, from axioma (genitive axiomatos); see axiom. Form axiomatical is attested from 1580s.
Example
- 1. Up to a point the axiomatic approach worked .
- 2. Theory of value : an axiomatic analysis of economic equi .
- 3. A general or abstract concept or term considered absolute or axiomatic .
- 4. It is axiomatic that a whole is greater than any of its parts .
- 5. Economics , which became the most influential of the social sciences , sought to remove this handicap by taking an axiomatic approach similar to euclid 's geometry .