See elenctic on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "grc", "3": "ἐλεγκτικός", "4": "", "5": "refutative" }, "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐλεγκτικός (elenktikós, “refutative”)", "name": "uder" } ], "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἐλεγκτικός (elenktikós, “refutative”).", "forms": [ { "form": "more elenctic", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most elenctic", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "elenctic (comparative more elenctic, superlative most elenctic)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English undefined derivations", "parents": [ "Undefined derivations", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "derived": [ { "word": "elenctic method" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 101:", "text": "‘What lady?’ he asked in the elenctic tones of Lewis Carroll's caterpillar.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination." ], "id": "en-elenctic-en-adj-jO-FFE9~", "links": [ [ "refute", "refute" ], [ "refutative", "refutative" ], [ "elenchus", "elenchus" ], [ "cross-examination", "cross-examination" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "elenchtic" }, { "word": "elenchtical" }, { "word": "elenctical" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɨˈlɛŋktɪk/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/əˈlɛŋk.tɪk/", "tags": [ "US" ] } ], "word": "elenctic" }
{ "derived": [ { "word": "elenctic method" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "grc", "3": "ἐλεγκτικός", "4": "", "5": "refutative" }, "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐλεγκτικός (elenktikós, “refutative”)", "name": "uder" } ], "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἐλεγκτικός (elenktikós, “refutative”).", "forms": [ { "form": "more elenctic", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most elenctic", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "elenctic (comparative more elenctic, superlative most elenctic)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms derived from Ancient Greek", "English terms with quotations", "English undefined derivations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 101:", "text": "‘What lady?’ he asked in the elenctic tones of Lewis Carroll's caterpillar.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination." ], "links": [ [ "refute", "refute" ], [ "refutative", "refutative" ], [ "elenchus", "elenchus" ], [ "cross-examination", "cross-examination" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɨˈlɛŋktɪk/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/əˈlɛŋk.tɪk/", "tags": [ "US" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "elenchtic" }, { "word": "elenchtical" }, { "word": "elenctical" } ], "word": "elenctic" }
Download raw JSONL data for elenctic meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.