Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being without exception or qualification; absolute.
- adjective Of or relating to a category or categories.
- adjective According to or using categories.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a category or the categories: opposed to transcendental.
- Stated unconditionally; not limited to a hypothetical state of things: as, a categorical proposition (that is, a simple, unconditional proposition).
- Applicable to the actual circumstances; stating the fact; pertinent; positive; precise; clear: as, a categorical answer (that is, an answer that clearly meets the question).
- noun In logic, a proposition which affirms a thing absolutely and without any hypothesis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a category.
- adjective Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
absolute ; having noexception - adjective of, pertaining to, or using a
category orcategories
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or included in a category or categories
- adjective not modified or restricted by reservations
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Examples
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Both opine on their parents in categorical terms: neither set understands its prodigy.
Mommy Queerest Meets A Serious Man « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
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Everyone has their opinion and yet some people couch it in categorical statements.
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"Put your questions in categorical order and I will answer them."
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Bromwich and other officials stressed that the policy announced Monday was not a reversal of its previous plans not to grant waivers known as categorical exclusions for deepwater projects.
Obama Allows Chevron, Shell And 11 Others To Resume Offshore Drilling Without Further Review AP 2011
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Bromwich and other officials stressed that the policy announced Monday was not a reversal of its previous plans not to grant waivers known as categorical exclusions for deepwater projects.
Obama Allows Chevron, Shell And 11 Others To Resume Offshore Drilling Without Further Review AP 2011
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Bromwich and other officials stressed that the policy announced Monday was not a reversal of its previous plans not to grant waivers known as categorical exclusions for deepwater projects.
Obama Allows Chevron, Shell And 11 Others To Resume Offshore Drilling Without Further Review AP 2011
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Bromwich and other officials stressed that the policy announced Monday was not a reversal of its previous plans not to grant waivers known as categorical exclusions for deepwater projects.
Obama Allows Chevron, Shell And 11 Others To Resume Offshore Drilling Without Further Review AP 2011
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As this account of Mill's principles suggests, his defense of individual liberties appears to be part of what might be called a categorical approach.
Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007
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The Center's November story detailed how the administration has awarded more than 179,000 exemptions known as "categorical exclusions" to stimulus projects funded by federal agencies, freeing those projects from normally required review under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The ruling reinstates Bush-era expedited oil and gas drilling under provisions called categorical exclusions on federal lands nationwide, Freudenthal said.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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