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categoric
categorical (firm, absolute, admitting no exception) /kate.ɡoˈrik/
adjective#2829 most common
Also: firm, definite, outright
Example sentences
Nu, categoric nu.
No, categorically not.
El a fost categoric în răspunsul lui.
He was categorical in his answer.
Directorul a dat un refuz categoric cererii noastre.
The director gave a categorical refusal to our request.
Profesorul a fost categoric: nimeni nu poate copia la examen.
The teacher was categorical: no one may copy during the exam.
Guvernul a respins categoric acuzațiile de corupție aduse de opoziție.
The government categorically rejected the corruption accusations brought by the opposition.
Deși dovezile erau ambigue, procurorul a susținut categoric vinovăția inculpatului, ceea ce a stârnit controverse în rândul juriștilor.
Although the evidence was ambiguous, the prosecutor categorically maintained the defendant's guilt, which stirred controversy among jurists.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | categoric | categorici |
| Genitive | categoric | categorici |
| Accusative | categoric | categorici |
| Vocative | categoric | categorici |
Word family
categoriecategory
a categorisito categorize, classify
categorisirecategorization
categoriccategorically (same form as the adjective)Etymology
Categoric entered Romanian in the nineteenth century as part of the wave of French and Latin borrowings that modernized the language. It comes from French catégorique, itself from Late Latin categoricus and ultimately Greek katēgorikós, tied to katēgoria (accusation, predication, category). The Greek verb katēgorein meant to speak against someone in public, built from kata- (down, against) and agoreuein (to speak in the assembly).
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