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methodical

[ muh-thod-i-kuhl ]
/ məˈθɒd ɪ kəl /
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adjective

performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate.

Words related to methodical

analytical, businesslike, careful, cut-and-dried, deliberate, efficient, exact, fixed, logical, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, systematic, systematical, tidy

Words nearby methodical

methionine, metho, methocarbamol, method, method in one's madness, methodical, methodism, methodist, methodists, methodius, methodize
Also me·thod·ic.

Origin of methodical

1560–70; methodic (< Latin methodic(us) < Greek methodikós; see method, -ic) + -al1

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British Dictionary definitions for methodic

methodical

less commonly methodic

/ (mɪˈθɒdɪkəl) /

adjective

characterized by method or orderliness; systematic

Derived forms of methodical

methodically, adverbmethodicalness, noun
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