Antonyms for heuristic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : hyoo-ris-tik or, often, yoo-
Phonetic Transcription : hyʊˈrɪs tɪk or, often, yʊ-


Definition of heuristic

Origin :
  • "serving to discover or find out," 1821, irregular formation from Greek heuretikos "inventive," related to heuriskein "to find" (from PIE *were- "to find;" cf. Old Irish fuar "I have found") + -istic. As a noun, from 1860.
  • As in inquiring : adj wondering, curious
Example sentences :
  • Is there any need to prove the capital importance of Heuristic?
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois
  • In all other cases, as we have already pointed out, assumption and probability have only a heuristic value for us lawyers.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
  • And the aim is heuristic, though often enough the search ends in no overt positive conclusion.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8 » by Various
  • Over time, actions became simpler while languages acquired the complexity of the heuristic experience.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • The heuristic attempt to establish new patterns of human interaction through art reflects the uncertainty.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • Sensualism, therefore, at least as regulative hypothesis, if not as heuristic principle.
  • Extract from : « Beyond Good and Evil » by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • My standpoint, moreover, requires me to admit the validity of the hypothesis of Descent as an heuristic maxim of natural science.
  • Extract from : « At the Deathbed of Darwinism » by Eberhard Dennert
  • A general hypothesis serves every special hypothesis as a heuristic principle.
  • Extract from : « International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I » by Various
  • The teaching, which follows the so-called “Heuristic” method, and the equipment of schools of every description, are admirable.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 » by Various
  • The instruments of Heuristic are being continually perfected, before our eyes, in two ways.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois

Synonyms for heuristic

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