Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- evident without proof or argument
- of or pertaining to an axiom
- obvious (layman)
Translations
evident without proof or argument
- Dutch: vanzelfsprekend
- Finnish: itsetään selvä, ilmiselvä
- Portuguese: axiomático
of or pertaining to an axiom
- Czech: axiomatický
- Finnish: aksiomaattinen
- Portuguese: axiomático
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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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absolute, actual, admitting no question,
aphoristic, apparent, clear, clear as crystal, confirmable, crisp, crystal-clear, demonstrable, demonstratable, discernible, distinct, epigrammatic, evident, explicit, express, factual, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, historical, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible,
indisputable,
indubitable,
irrefragable,
irrefutable,
manifest, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, pithy, plain, plain as day, platitudinous, pointed, provable, proverbial, pungent, real, seeable, self-evident,
self-explaining, self-explanatory, sententious, succinct, tangible, terse, testable, to be seen, unanswerable, unconfutable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unmistakable, unquestionable, unrefutable, verifiable, visible