pedagogical

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adjective

Of, or relating to pedagogy; teaching.

Less commonScrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivepedagogical (comparative more pedagogical, superlative most pedagogical)

comparative more pedagogical · superlative most pedagogical · alternative UK paedagogical · alternative obsolete pædagogical

  1. Of, or relating to pedagogy; teaching.

    The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.

    2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106
    2 more examples

    As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.

    1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144

    She also noted that the administration, in a letter in April, “specifically conditioned funding on agreeing to its ten terms, only one of which related to antisemitism, while six related to ideological and pedagogical concerns, including who may lead and teach at Harvard, who may be admitted, and what may be taught.”

    2025 September 3, Dan Mangan, “Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration”, in CNBC

    Synonyms: didactic, pedagogic

  2. Haughty and formal.

    Synonyms: pedantic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf, or relating to pedagogy; teaching.

adjectiveHaughty and formal.

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adjectiveof or relating to pedagogy

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishpedagogic
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishpedagogical

From pedagogic + -al.

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Translations

Catalan pedagògic
  • pedagògicof, or relating to pedagogy
Czech pedagogický
  • pedagogickýof, or relating to pedagogy
Danish pædagogisk
  • pædagogiskof, or relating to pedagogy
Dutch pedagogisch
  • pedagogischof, or relating to pedagogy
Esperanto pedagogia
  • pedagogiaof, or relating to pedagogy
Finnish pedagoginen, opetuksellinen
  • pedagoginenof, or relating to pedagogy
  • opetuksellinenof, or relating to pedagogy
  • opetusopillinenof, or relating to pedagogy
  • oppimestarimainenhaughty and formal
  • ylimielinenhaughty and formal
  • muodollinenhaughty and formal
  • jäykkähaughty and formal
French pédagogique
  • pédagogiqueof, or relating to pedagogy
German pädagogisch
  • pädagogischof, or relating to pedagogy
Hungarian pedagógiai
  • pedagógiaiof, or relating to pedagogy
Indonesian pedagogis, pedagogik
  • pedagogisof, or relating to pedagogy
  • pedagogikof, or relating to pedagogy
Italian pedagogico, didattico
  • pedagogicoof, or relating to pedagogy
  • didatticoof, or relating to pedagogy
  • educativoof, or relating to pedagogy
Norwegian Bokmål pedagogisk
  • pedagogiskof, or relating to pedagogy
Polish pedagogiczny, wyniosły
  • pedagogicznyof, or relating to pedagogy
  • wyniosłyhaughty and formal
Portuguese pedagógico
  • pedagógicoof, or relating to pedagogy
Russian педагоги́ческий
  • педагоги́ческий (pedagogíčeskij)of, or relating to pedagogy
Slovak pedagogický
  • pedagogickýof, or relating to pedagogy
Spanish pedagógico
  • pedagógicoof, or relating to pedagogy
Swedish pedagogisk
  • pedagogiskof, or relating to pedagogy
Ukrainian педагогі́чний
  • педагогі́чний (pedahohíčnyj)of, or relating to pedagogy

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

pedagogical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedagogical

MLA

“pedagogical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedagogical. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pedagogical,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedagogical.

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