different between categorical vs incontestable

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt??????k(?)l/

Adjective

categorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)

1. Absolute; having no exception.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:

     Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.

2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

Synonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional

Antonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

Derived terms

• acategorical
• categorical imperative
• categoricalness

Related terms

• categoricity

Translations

Noun

categorical (plural categoricals)

1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

English

Etymology

in- +? contestable

Adjective

incontestable (comparative more incontestable, superlative most incontestable)

1. Not contestable; indisputable; certain

   That he was the greatest 100m runner of his generation was incontestable.

   Synonym: incontrovertible

Translations

Derived terms

• incontestableness
• incontestability
• incontestably

French

Etymology

From in- +? contestable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??.t?s.tabl/

Adjective

incontestable (plural incontestables)

1. incontestable

   Synonym: indubitable

Derived terms

• incontestablement

Further reading

• “incontestable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Adjective

incontestable (plural incontestables)

1. incontestable