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methodical /mɪˈθɒdɪk(ə)l /adjective1Done according to a systematic or established procedure: a methodical approach to the evaluation of computer systems...- His major motifs are still walls and human figures and he paints them with the same methodical approach to surface detailing as he had done in the past.
- You need excellent guard play and to be methodical in approach, concerned with tempo and getting it down to a possession game.
- We are going to undertake a fairly rigorous and methodical approach.
Synonyms orderly, well ordered, well organized, well thought out, planned, well planned, efficient, businesslike, coherent, systematic, scientific, structured, logical, analytic, formal, regular, well regulated, disciplined; meticulous, punctilious, tidy, neat 1.1(Of a person) orderly or systematic in thought or behaviour: she was so methodical, she kept everything documented a methodical man, he assembled all the papers into a huge pile...- You are methodical and orderly, solving problems logically, and wasting little time on superficial matters.
- He was methodical, efficient, uncorruptible, perhaps even capable of being ruthless.
- The youngest daughter did not enjoy carrying them, but she was a methodical person who did what she set out to do.
Derivatives methodic /mɪˈθɒdɪk / adjective ...- The overall effect is one of methodic restraint in the presentation of ideas, and the importance of each underlying sound.
- The drill team clicked and clapped and stomped, their feet and guns a methodic waltz between human and machine.
- That's the careful, methodic, very adult mind of someone planning to hurt another person.
Origin Late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek methodikos (from methodos: see method) + -al. Rhymes periodical, rhapsodical, synodical |