"methodical" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Audio: en-us-methodical.ogg [US] Forms: more methodical [comparative], most methodical [superlative]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μεθοδικός (methodikós, “going to work by rule, systematic, crafty”) + -al. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|μεθοδικός||going to work by rule, systematic, crafty}} Ancient Greek μεθοδικός (methodikós, “going to work by rule, systematic, crafty”), {{suffix|en||al}} + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} methodical (comparative more methodical, superlative most methodical)
  1. In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic. Translations (in an organized manner): μεθοδικός (methodikós) (Ancient Greek), metódicu (Asturian), метады́чны (mjetadýčny) (Belarusian), metòdic (Catalan), metodisk (Danish), järjestelmällinen (Finnish), systemaattinen (Finnish), méthodique (French), metódico (Galician), methodisch (German), μεθοδικός (methodikós) (Greek), módszeres (Hungarian), metodico (Italian), 几帳面な (kichōmen na) (alt: きちょうめんな) (Japanese), әдістемелік (ädıstemelık) (Kazakh), metodisks (Latvian), hakune (Maori), metodisk (Norwegian Bokmål), metodisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), metodyczny (Polish), metódico (Portuguese), metodic (Romanian), методи́ческий (metodíčeskij) (Russian), методи́чный (metodíčnyj) (Russian), metódico (Spanish), metodisk (Swedish), методи́чний (metodýčnyj) (Ukrainian), metodik (Volapük), מעטאָדיש (metodish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-methodical-en-adj-JwNpBkmh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'in an organized manner': 84 16
  2. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation.
    Sense id: en-methodical-en-adj-AWFQ5ao1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: systematic, codified, methodical, orderly, regular, scientific, systemative Hyponyms: businesslike, sequential, shipshape Related terms: methodic, methodically, methodological, focused

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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.