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axiomatic adj
1 evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: self-evident, taken for granted(p)]
2 containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom" [syn: aphoristic]
3 of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens [syn: axiomatical, postulational]

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Adjective

  1. evident without proof or argument
  2. of or pertaining to an axiom
  3. obvious (layman)

Translations

evident without proof or argument
of or pertaining to an axiom

Quotations

  • 1984: It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed." — United States Supreme Court, Welsh v. Wisconsin, Justice William Brennan writing for the court (66 U.S. 740, 748)
  • 1932: The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable. — Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

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