methodical
performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate.
Origin of methodical
1- Rarely me·thod·ic [muh-thod-ik] /məˈθɒd ɪk/ .
synonym study For methodical
Other words for methodical
Other words from methodical
- me·thod·i·cal·ly, adverb
- me·thod·i·cal·ness, noun
- an·ti·me·thod·ic, adjective
- an·ti·me·thod·i·cal, adjective
- an·ti·me·thod·i·cal·ness, noun
- non·me·thod·ic, adjective
- non·me·thod·i·cal, adjective
- non·me·thod·i·cal·ness, noun
- pre·me·thod·i·cal, adjective
- qua·si-me·thod·i·cal, adjective
- un·me·thod·ic, adjective
- un·me·thod·i·cal, adjective
- un·me·thod·i·cal·ness, noun
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How to use methodical in a sentence
In his methodic preparations and clandestine deployments he knows precisely what carnage he aims to create.
Senseless. Evil. Silver Linings. Our Misguided Terms of Terror. | William Giraldi | April 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAs to death, the scientific mind dies at its post working in normal and methodic fashion to the end.
The Poison Belt | Arthur Conan DoyleCould any one imagine so many millions slipping through the fingers of M. de Thaller's methodic cashier?
Other People's Money | Emile GaboriauIn all those preparations he forgot nothing, employing every minute of the few hours in a sort of methodic exaltation.
The Dark Flower | John GalsworthyThat he felt himself abnormally methodic lay entirely in the fact that he watered the fern each day.
Kenny | Leona Dalrymple
This is the case in all methodic arrangements; to this rule there are no exceptions.
British Dictionary definitions for methodical
less commonly methodic
/ (mɪˈθɒdɪkəl) /
characterized by method or orderliness; systematic
Derived forms of methodical
- methodically, adverb
- methodicalness, noun
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